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LONG  ISLAND  OF  TO-DAY. 


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OPYRIGHTED  BY  CHARLES  M.  HEALD. 


CONTENTS. 


Bird's-eye  view  of  Long  Island, 
Why? 

Long  Island  as  it  is, 

Long  Island  Improvement,  - 

Then  and  Now, 

The  Journey  over  the  Island, 

Manhattan  Beach, 

THE  SOUTH  SIDE  RESORTS, 


Amagansett, 

-  52 

Fire  Island, 

Amityville,  - 

34 

Forge,  - 

Atlanticville,  - 

-  49 

Fort  Pond  Bay, 

Babylon, 

34 

Freeport, 

Baldwin's, 

-  32 

Good  Ground, 

Bayport, 

42 

Islip, 

Bayshore, 

-  39 

Isle  of  Wight,  - 

Bellmore, 

33 

Jamaica, 

Bellport,  - 

-  43 

Lawrence, 

Breslau, 

34 

Long  Beach, 

Bridgehampton, 

-  5i 

Merrick,  - 

Brookhaven, 

44 

Montauk  Point, 

Easthampton,  - 

-  52 

Moriches, 

Eastport, 

47 

Oakdale, 

East  Rockaway, 

-  3° 

Patchogue, 

Far  Rockaway,  - 

28 

Pearsall's, 

THE  NORTH 

SHORE 

BRANCHES, 

Bayside,  - 

-  62 

Greenlawn,  - 

Broadway,  - 

61 

Green  vale,  - 

Centreport, 

-  70 

Huntington, 

College  Point, 

60 

Little  Neck, 

Cold  Spring,  - 

-  68 

Locust  Valley, 

Corona, 

59 

Manhasset;  - 

Douglaston, 

-  62 

Newtown, 

East  Northport,  - 

71 

Northport,  - 

Flushing, 

-  59 

Ordfield  Point, 

Glen  Cove,  - 

66 

Oyster  Bay, 

Glen  Head, 

-      -  64 

Port  Jefferson, 

Great  Neck, 

63 

Roslyn, 

MAIN  LINE  AND  CENTRAL  SECTION, 


Aquebogue, 

-  89 

Gardiner's  Island, 

Baiting  Hollow.  - 

88 

Greenport,  - 

Bethpage, 

-  83 

Hempstead, 

Brentwood, 

83 

Hicksville,  - 

Central  Park,  - 

-  83 

Hinsdale, 

Central  Islip, 

84 

Hyde  Park, 

Cutchogue, 

-  93 

Jamesport, 

Deer  Park,  - 

83 

Manor, 

Farmingdale,  - 

-  83 

Mattituck, 

Franklinville, 

90 

Medford, 

Garden  City,  - 

-  80 

Mineola,  - 

Passenger  Tariff, 
Advertisements, 


4 
5 
7 

12 
12 

17 

20 


25 


37  | 

Quogue,  - 

-  48 

46 

Ridgewood, 

33 

54 

Richmond  Hill, 

25 

32 

Rockville  Centre, 

32 

49 

Sag  Harbor, 

-  53 

39 

Sayville,  - 

4i 

28 

Speonk,  - 

-  48 

25 

Springfield,  - 

26 

28 

Southampton,  - 

-  5i 

^1 

j 

South  Oyster  Bay, 

JJ 

33 

Valley  Stream, 

-  26 

54 

Water  Mills, 

5i 

4° 

Wave  Crest, 

-  29 

40 

Westhampton, 

48 

42 

\\  oodstjurgh,  - 

-  27 

30 

57 

7o 

Sea  Cliff, 

-  65 

64 

Setauket,      -       -  - 

73 

69 

Smithtown, 

-  72 

62 

St.  James,  - 

72 

66 

St.  Johnland,  - 

71 

63 

Stony  Brook, 

72 

59 

Syosset,  - 

-  66 

70 

Whitestone, 

60 

76 

Williston, 

-  64 

68 

Winfield,      -       -  - 

58 

74 

Woodside, 

-  58 

64 

77 

98 

Orient,  - 

-  97 

95 

Peconic, 

93 

82 

Queen's,  - 

-  80 

82 

Riverhead,  - 

88 

80 

Ronkonkoma,  - 

"  84 

80 

Shelter  Island, 

96 

89 

|  Southold, 

-  94 

87 

Waverly, 

86 

92 

Westbury, 

-  82 

86 

West  Deer  Park, 

83 

80 

Yaphank,  - 

-  86 

IOI 

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E  don't  propose  to  inquire  ' '  Where  are  you  going  to  spend 
the  summer  ? "  for  that,    doubtless,  is  the  question  you  are 
asking  yourself,  but  we  desire  to  suggest  that  you 

TRY  LONG  ISLAND. 

Why?  Because  you  will  certainly  be  able  to  find  upon  it  a  home  or 
a  resting-place  suited  to  your  tastes,  your  pocket-book,  your  consti- 
tution and  your  business — it  matters  little  what  their  condition.  The 
hills  and  dales  and  wooded  knolls  of  the  north  side,  edged  by  the 
silvery  waters  of  the  Sound  ;  the  level  centre  retired  and  quiet,  and 
the  fertile  fields,  pretty  hamlets  and  already  popular  resorts  of  the 
alluring  south  side,  lying  close  to  or  directly  along  the  surging  ocean, 
whose  resounding  beach  stretches  more  than  one  hundred  miles  away, 
form  a  combination  not  offered  elsewhere. 

Why  were  not  these  advantages  known  and  utilized  years  ago? 
Because — like  the  famed  spectacles  in  search  of  which  the  old  lad} 
ransacked  the  house  while  they  were  in  their  place  upon  her  head — 


the\'  were  too  close  at  hand  to  be  seen.  But  now  that  the  ancient 
dame  (who  in  this  case  must  be  Dame  Fashion)  has  been  shown 
where  her  glasses  are,  we  may  all  look  through  them  upon  these 
pages  and  see  clearly  WHY. 

This  book  was  not  written  to  take  a  place  among  the  lustrous 
examples  of  fancy  composition  that  aim  to  be  guide-books,  but  prove 
to  be  mere  wordy  nothings — glasses  of  literary  soda,  whose  origin  is 
gas  and  whose  body  is  froth.  Nor  will  it  be  found  to  belong  to  that 
other  familiar  order  of  enticing  but  mendacious  creations,  in  which 
Venice  is  likened  to  heaven,  and  every  place  in  a  certain  district — 
say  in  New  Jersey — is  described  as  very  like  Venice  or  very  much  nicer. 

It  was  written  to  provide  the  public  with  useful  information  about 
Long  Island,  a  section  of  country  as  yet  little  known,  but  which  lies 
in  the  very  shadow  of  the  metropolis,  and  offers  advantages  unequalled 
in  attractiveness  or  variety  to  those  seeking  summer  resorts  or  per- 
manent homes.  To  such  this  book  is  offered.  Its  pictures,  though 
mainly  adapted  from  views  by  the  candid  camera,  are  no  less  true  to 
what  they  represent  than  the  written  lines.  The  one  aim  has  been  to 
tell  the  reader  just  what  will  interest  and  help  him ;  anticipating 
natural  questions  and  describing  most  fully  those  places  that  represent 
each  of  the  many  differing  sorts  of  attractions,  in  order  to  gratify  (as 
it  is  possible  to  do  on  Long  Island)  nearly  every  shade  of  taste. 


LONG  ISLAND  AS  IT  IS. 


ORTIONS  of  the  journey  "all  over  Long  Island"  required  for  the 


_L  compilation  of  this  book  the  writer  has  made  again  and  again,  and 
now,  as  he  moves  in  perfect  comfort  in  a  train  of  cars  not  excelled 
in  any  respect  by  those  of  any  other  railroad,  over  smooth,  steel  rails, 
upon  a  level,  well-balanced  road-bed,  thoughts  about  this  singular 
island  rush  upon  his  mind. 

How  strange  it  is  that  while  Connecticut  is  already  an  aggregation 
of  cities,  while  southern  New  York  is  populous  to  the  same  degree, 
and  while  from  Trenton  eastward  the  overflow  of  metropolitan  popula- 
tion has  littered  the  plain  with  towns,  Long  Island  is  to-day  able  to 


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accommodate  millions  in  cities  yet  unfounded  !  It  is  as  though 
Nature  has  planned  that  Long  Island's  woods  and  bays,  and  fields  and 
heights  and  beaches,  are  to  remain  as  they  yet  remain,  in  spite  of  two 
centuries  of  ownership  by  white  men — a  vast  sanitarium,  a  resting  place, 
a  breathing  spot,  a  pleasure-ground  for  the  teeming  millions  crowding 
one  another  within  sight  or  short  sailing  from  her  shores. 

Think  of  its  situation  !  It  is  at  the  meeting-place  of  all  lines  of 
travel  from  the  East — as  handy  to  the  people  of  the  Southern  as  to  the 
people  of  the  Eastern  and  the  Middle  States  ;  and  its  separation  from 
the  continent  by  the  Sound,  which,  in  the  old  world,  would  have  been 
called  a  sea,  protects  it  not  only  from  the  swarms  of  population,  but 
from  the  hot  blasts  which  sweep  outward  from  the  interior  to  scorch 
every  other  seaside  territory  on  the  coast.  It  is  the  largest  of  our 
islands,  and  on  its  surface  may  be  enjoyed  every  variety  of  scenic  attrac- 
tion to  be  found  elsewhere  in  this  part  of  the  country,  save  in  the 
mountains  of  northern  New  York,  New  Hampshire  and  Vermont. 

Inhabited  by  the  Dutch  at  the  eastern  end  since  1611,  and  at  the 
western  end  by  the  English  since  1639,  what  household  words  some 
parts  of  the  island  nomenclature  have  become  to  us  all  !  Coney  Island 
sends  a  flood  of  thoughts  to  the  mind  :  Fire  Island,  sighted  by  immi- 
grants and  Americans  home- 


ward  bound  from 
Blue  Point  and 
suggestive  of  that 


good  living  which  is  a 
special  characteristic 
of  every  locality  on  the 
island  ;   the  Hamptons, 
unequalled    for  richness 


of  soil,  and  famed  as  having  fascinated  the  author  of  "Home 
Sweet  Home,"  who  chose  his  own  home  there  ;  Roslyn,  the  home  of 
William  Cullen  Bryant  ;  Dosoris,  near  Glen  Cove,  the  summer  home 
of  Charles  A.  Dana  ;  Seaford,  in  the  Hamptons,  Gen.  Dix's  country 
place  ;  Babylon,  close  to 
which  is  August  Belmont's 
mansion  and  park  ;  Gar- 
den City,  founded  by  the 
greatest  of  merchants,  A.  T. 
Stewart ;  Sag  Harbor  and 
Greenport,  familiar  to  all 
yachtsmen,  and  Shelter 
Island,  long  popular  with 
New  Englanders.  And,  as 
these  names  are  recalled, 
what  a  diversity  of  scene  is  * 
suggested.  Surely  nothing  but 
mountains  are  lacking  to  com- 
plete the  variety.  We  have  touch- 
ed upon  blossoming  inland  plains  ; 
upon  a  towering,  surf-beaten  pro- 
montory ;  upon  pellucid,  green-edged  bays  ;  stretches  of  perfect  beach, 
upon  w7hich  gentle  summer  billows  sound  their  rhythm  ;  upon  wood- 
land and  hill,  and  glen  and  lake.  Had  we  included  Flushing  and 
Jamaica — proud  old  towns,  within  easy  reach  of  the  city's  thoroughfares, 
where  their  inhabitants  spend  their  days  at  trade,  returning  to  their 
cosey  homes  amid  shaded  streets  and  blooming  gardens  in  the  cool  of 
twilight — what  that  exists  on  the  mainland  would  have  been  omitted 
from  the  list  of  attractions  to  this  continent  in  miniature  ? 

The  new-comer  upon  this  magnified  and  improved  reproduction  of 
the  Bermudas  close  to  our  doors  is  certain  to  be  surprised  at  that 
fertility  of  the  soil  which  alone  accounts  for  the  beauty  of  the  island's 
summer  dress.  As  long  ago  as  1670  the  Rev.  Richard  Denton  wrote 
home  to  England  from  his  parish  at  Hempstead  :  "  Yea,  in  May  you 
shall  see  the  Woods  and  Fields  so  curiously  bedecke  with  roses,  and 
an  innumerable  multitude  of  delightful  Flowers  not  only  pleasing  to 


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the  eye,  but  smell,  that  you  may  behold  Nature  contending  with  Art, 
and  striving  to  equal,  if  not  excel,  many  Gardens  in  England."  He 
spoke  of  the  wealth  of  wild  fruit  also,  and  in  his  quaint  style  said  that 
strawberries  were  in  "such  abundance  in  June,  that  the  Fields  and 
the  Woods  are  died  red  :  Which,  the  Country-people  perceiving, 
instantly  arm  themselves  with  bottles  of  Wine,  Cream  and  Sugar,  and 
instead  of  a  Coat  of  Male,  every  one  takes  a  Female  upon  his  Horse 
behind  him,  and  so,  rushing  violently  into  the  fields,  never  leave  till 
they  have  disrobed  them  of  their  red  colours,  and  turned  them  into  the 
old  habit."  Part  of  this  remains  true  to-day,  for  at  Montauk  the 
hill-sides  yet  continue  to  be  so  reddened  by  this  fruit  that  strangers 
wonder  to  what  cause  is  due  the  autumnal  tint  of  the  landscapes 
thereabout.  The  good  man  also  called  attention  to  what  he  aptly 
called  the  crystal  streams  on  the  south  side,  which  he  said,  "run  so 
swift  that  they  purge  themselves  of  filth  and  mud,"  and  which  he 
describes  as  well  stocked  with  ' '  Basse,  Sheepsheads,  Place,  Perch, 
Trout,  Eals,  Turtles  and  divers  other  Fish.'"  To  the  game  of  the 
island  he  devoted  a  paragraph,  and  though  the  variety  and  quantity 
of  sport  in  the  water  and  on  land  is  diminished,  as  good  fishing  and 
hunting  remains  as  can  be  had  short  of  the  Adirondacks  or  the  North- 
west. The  spring  and  fall  shooting  are  not  elsewhere  excelled,  and 
the  summer  fishing  is  not  equalled. 

Long  Island  is  125  miles  long,  and  from  eight  to  twenty  miles  in 
width.  It  embraces  1,500  square  miles,  or  960,000  acres — larger  than 
the  State  of  Rhode  Island.  The  climate  is  mild,  and  not  liable  to 
sudden  changes  or  extremes  of  heat  and  cold.  There  is  no  such  thing 
as  malaria  nearer  to  it  than  New  York.  It  offers  to  the  pleasure- 
seeker  unequalled  surf-bathing,  ocean  or  bay  sailing,  brook  or  pond  or 
ocean  fishing,  better  shooting  than  can  be  found  at  a  less  distance 
than  the  Adirondacks,  unexampled  drives,  food  fresh  from  the  water, 
the  air,  or  the  land  ;  an  atmosphere  peculiarly  invigorating  and  never 
tainted.  Its  pleasure  resorts  are  especially  attractive  to  women  and 
children,  because,  being  close  to  the  city,  the  hotels  and  boarding 
houses  are  not  abandoned  by  the  men  from  Monday  mornings  until 
Saturday  nights.  With  this,  as  with  all  else  herein  set  forth,  the  fact 
should  be  kept  clearly  in  mind  that  those  tyrants  of  most  persons'  lives, 


our  purses,  however  little  they  may  hold  for  wise  outlays  in  summer, 
can  be  closely  suited  in  the  wide  range  of  places  here  enumerated. 
In  spite  of  the  general  excellence  of  the  fare,  in  no  place  within  easy 
reach  of  New  York  is  living  anything  like  so  cheap  as  on  this  island. 

As  each  town,  village,  or  country-side  receives  its  especial  chapter 
farther  on  in  these  pages,  the  reader  will  be  able  to  make  his  choice 


the  site  of  a  permanent  home.  If  he  would  sport  with  the  surf,  or 
wing  the  feathered  beauties  of  the  air,  or  throw  his  line  for  trout,  or 
exercise  his  limbs  with  field  sports,  or  seek  the  quiet  shade  of  wood- 
land parks,  or  sail,  or  row,  or  drive,  or  till  the  soil,  or  end  a  busy 


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life  in  restful  village  lanes,  he'll  find  somewhere  along  the  list  the 
very  spot  to  go  to  and  examine,  and,  if  we  mistake  not,  the  very  spot 
whereat  to  end  his  search  in  triumph. 


LONG  ISLAND  IMPROVEMENT. 

An  association  of  British  and  American  capitalists,  organized  for 
the  purpose  of  developing  the  great  natural  resources  of  the  island, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  one  million  powids  sterling,  have  made  their  initial 
investment  in  the  town  of  Babylon,  where  they  have  purchased  a  plot 
of  seventy  acres  in  extent,  of  most  inviting  and  beautiful  location, 
embracing  a  fresh-water  lake,  and  commanding  an  outlook  of  surpass- 
ing beauty. 

Upon  this  charming  spot  they  have  built  the  New  Hotel  at 
Babylon — "The  Argyle  " — the  most  unique  and  picturesque  hotel  in 
the  country.  A  picture,  elsewhere,  conveys  an  idea  of  its  external 
beauties.  In  outline,  internal  finish,  and  novel  and  pleasing  features  it 
surpasses  anything  yet  built  in  the  land.  Three  hundred  and  fifty 
guests,  supplied  with  every  modern  convenience  in  use  in  the  best  hos- 
telries  of  the  city,  can  find  accommodation  here.  An  especially  beautiful 
feature  of  this  notably  handsome  house  is  the  mediaeval  dining-hall, 
with  its  light-timbered  roof  and  exquisite  screen,  panelled  with  stained 
glass.  Contiguous  to  the  hotel  are  the  stables  (accommodating  forty 
horses),  the  gas-works,  water-works,  ice-house,  servants'  quarters,  etc., 
completing  an  establishment  so  thoroughly  appointed  as  to  be  without 
its  equal  elsewhere. 

A  dozen  or  more  cottages,  of  the  same  style  and  elegance  as  the 
hotel,  occupy  the  grounds  immediately  surrounding. 


THEN  AND  NOW. 

Although  the  Long  Islanders  themselves — a  sturdy,  hardy,  happy 
people — have  farmed  and  hunted  and  fished  here  during  more  than 
two  centuries,  the  greater  portion  of  the  island  is  to  the  minority  of 
summer  visitors  only  a  few  years  old  ;  to  the  majority  it  is  totally 
unknown.  The  grandmothers  of  middle-aged  New  Yorkers  hunted 
for  shells  on  Coney  Island,  frolicked  in  the  surf  at  Rockaway  and 


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breathed  the  delicious  air  of  Islip  when  they  were  in  short  frocks  ; 
their  sons  ran  out  to  the  old  Fashion  Course  to  see  the  trials  of 
speed  upon  that  famous  track,  and  Greenport  and  Sag  Harbor  were 
bustling  whaling  ports.  But  all  these  were  small 
things  in  their  way,  and  the  tide  of  summer  travel 
continued  to  set  in  other  directions,  until  now  that, 
in  the  ripeness  of  time,  the  railroad  system 
having  interested  far-seeing  men  with  means 

sufficient  for  the  purpose, 
"the   railroad,''   as  one 
shrewd   native  expressed 
it,    "is  building  up  the 
island  and  the  island  is 
building  up  the  railroad. " 
Two  hundred  trains  a  day 
roll  to  or  from  Long  Is- 
land City,  like  ' '  so  many 
pulsations    carrying  life- 
blood  from 
the  heart 
through 
e  arter- 


All  the  great  roads 
running  out   of  New 
York  have  had  to  pass 
through    the  fledgling 
period,   during  which  each 
struggled  for  a  livelihood,  and  when 
no   man   of  all   the   public   was  so 
humble  but  that  he  felt  he  had  a  right 
to  abuse  and  condemn  it.     The  rail- 
road to  Long  Branch  was  first  called 
the  Raritan  and  Delaware  Bav,  and 


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the  ill-suited  people  nicknamed  it  the  "Ridiculous  and  Darned  Bad 
Railroad."  The  little  line,  now  a  portion  of  the  great  Pennsylvania 
system  in  New  Jersey,  and  called  the  Freehold  and  Jamesburg  Agri- 
cultural Railroad,  was  for  years  known  as  the  "Fits  and  Jerks  Aggra- 
vation Company and  even  the  great  Delaware,  Lackawanna  and 
Western  was  once  so  little  like  its  present  self  that  the  wits  called  it 
the  ' '  Delay,  Linger  and  Wait. "  But  just  as  the  Raritan  and  Dela- 
ware Bay  came  in  time  to  earn  the  popular  title,  ' '  Rising  and  Doing 
Better, "  so  have  the  others  lived  out  and  down  all  reason  for  ridicule, 
and  the  Long  Island  Railroad,  which  never  had  a  nickname,  has  for 
years  been  one  of  the  great  lines  of  the  country. 

The  history  of  each  of  the  giant  railroads  across  the  continent, 
striking  out  beyond  the  confines  of  civilization,  across  vast  unpeopled 
prairies  and  through  mystic  mountain  fastnesses,  and  yet  almost 
instantly  provoking  the  establishment  of  chains  of  new  cities  by  the 
way,  is,  after  all,  only  the  record  on  a  larger  scale  of  every  railroad 
enterprise,  even  in  the  neighborhood  of  the  great  centres  of  popula- 
tion. This  record  is  being  made  upon  Long  Island  to-day.  New 
towns  are  springing  up,  and  old  Rip  Van  Winkle-villes  are  awaken- 
ing to  an  appreciation  of  modern  needs  and  enterprise. 

An  evidence  of  the  strides  made  by  the  Long  Island  Railroad 
in  passenger  and  freight  traffic  may  be  seen  at  a  glance  in  the  fol- 
lowing extract  from  the  books  of  the  company  : 


Year. 

Passengers 
Carried. 

Tons  of 
Freight  Carried. 

I877  . 

•  3»o63>431 

272,086 

i87g  • 

•  4,157,7*5 

254, 58° 

1879  . 

.  5,043,848 

286,071 

1880  . 

.  6,228,292 

320,837 

1881  . 

.  6,512,270 

339^52 

1882  . 

•  8,878,543 

38o,949 

1883  . 

.  9,024,370 

416,153 

This  is  a  short  story,  but  a  plain  one,  and  we  strongly  doubt  whether 
this  statement  can  be  eclipsed  by  any  other  railroad.  The  figures  of 
the  monthly  and  daily  travel  show  that  this  wonderful  increase  is  not 
attributable  to  the  summer  business  alone,  but  that  a  large  increase 
has  been  made  in  the  permanent  resident  population. 


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The  following  table  of  receipts  from  daily  commuters  is  positive 
evidence  that  the  opportunities  of  the  island  for  permanent  homes,  so 
long  hidden,  are  being  availed  of. 


Winter  Months. 

1879. 

1880. 

1881. 

1882. 

1883. 

1884. 

October .    .  . 

5857  75 

6525.88 

7773-75 

8254-35 

8817.20 

November  . 

6406.88 

6352.75 

755050 

7S56.IO 

8877.23 

December  . 

4643 • 75 

5295 -47 

6339-75 

6397-30 

7179.82 

January . 

5057.00 

5872.25 

6116.25 

7634-50 

7719.60 

7827.18 

February  . 

4618.73 

5064. 13 

6488 . 00 

7536.50 

7630.25 

8172  22 

March    .    .  . 

5209-75 

5439  25 

6490.25 

7439  25 

7726.15 

8568.58 

Under  the  present  management  the  arrangements  for  the  trans- 
portation of  passengers  with  promptness,  speed,  and  comfort  are  equal 
to  those  of  any  railroad  in  the  country.  During  the  season  frequent 
trains  will  be  run  at  a  speed  of  forty  miles  an  hour,  making  it  feasible 


during  the  day,-  and  to  reach  his  summer  home  before  nightfall. 
Large  expenditures  have  been  made  to  perfect  an  equipment  of  rolling 
stock,  road-bed,  and  rails  equal  to  that  of  any  road  running  out  of 
New  York.     The  celebrated  Woodruff  parlor-coaches  are  attached  to 


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all  express  trains.  They  provide  the  very  acme  of  comfort.  Each 
coach  moves  upon  carefully  adjusted  trucks,  insuring  noiseless  and  gen- 
tle motion,  and  the  cars  are  appointed  handsomely,  conveniently,  and 
so  as  to  give  the  utmost  comfort.  Perfect  ventilation  is  secured  without 
draughts,  and  even  in  the  warmest  weather  the  cars  are  delightfully 
cool.  There  is  no  car,  no  matter  what  its  name  or  fame,  that  excels 
in  any  particular  any  of  these  Woodruff  coaches,  which  are  new  and 
replete  with  every  invention  designed  to  make  railroad  riding  luxurious. 
They  will  be  run  under  the  management  of  the  genial  manager,  Major 
J.  C.  Paul,  who  will  be  found  particularly  anxious  to  satisfy  the  most 
fastidious. 

New  and  commodious  stations  have  been  built ;  trains  are  run  on 
exact  time  ;  the  special  requirements  of  localities  have  due  consider- 
ation ;  and,  in  the  pursuance  01  a  liberal  and  far-seeing  policy,  the 
company  is  daily  adding  to  its  equipment,  in  order  to  meet  the  most 
exacting  demands  for  speedy  and  comfortable  transportation.  This 
needs  to  be  said  only  to  strangers.  So  great  has  been  the  confidence 
reposed  in  the  policy  of  the  company,  that  capital  has  for  several  years 
been  seeking  investment  all  over  the  island  ;  land  has  quadrupled  in 
value ;  buildings  are  springing  up  both  in  the  older  settlements  and 
upon  new  tracts,  for  private  dwellings  and  for  the  entertainment  of  the 
public,  and  the  very  atmosphere  over  the  length  and  breadth  of  the 
island  is  charged  with  the  quickening  element  of  enterprise  and 
activity,  in  anticipation  of  the  new  life  that  is  suffusing  and  spreading 
the  population. 

The  Main  Line  of  the  road  runs  along  the  centre  of  the  island  from  Long 
Island  City  and  Brooklyn  to  Greenport,  keeping  generally  equidistant  from  the 
ocean  beach  on  the  one  side  and  the  shore  of  the  Sound  on  the  other.  From  this 
Main  Line  many  branches  connect  with  important  points. 

The  Glen  Cove  Branch  diverges  from  the  Main  Line  at  Mineola,  and 
traverses  the  rich  and  picturesque  section  between  the  centre  of  the  island  and  the 
Sound,  passing  the  pretty  and  popular  stations  East  WlLLETON,  Albertsons, 
Roslyn,  Greenvale,  Glen  Head,  Sea  Cliff,  Glen  Cove,  and  terminating  at 
Locust  Valley — a  trip  of  only  half  an  hour  each  way,  and  of  rare  delight  to  the 
lover  of  beauty  in  nature. 

At  Hicksville,  on  the  Main  Line,  is  the  junction  of  the  Port  Jefferson 
Branch  to  Huntington,  Northport  and  Port  Jefferson,  three  old  and 
romantic  villages  nestling  at  the  heads  of  beautiful  bays  on  the  Sound  shore.  The 
route  is  through  a  country  in  which  nature  has  lavished  ornament,  and  the  stations 


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passed  are  nearly  all  synonymous  in  the  popular  mind  with  pure  and  cool  air, 
pretty  landscapes,  comfort,  sport  and  rest.  They  are  Syosset,  Cold  Spring, 
Huntington,  Greenlawn,  Northport,  East  Northport,  St.  Johnland,  Smithtown, 
St.  James,  Stony  Brook,  Setauket  and  Port  Jefferson. 

At  Manor  is  the  junction  of  a  branch  connecting  the  Main  Line  with  the 
Montauk  Division  at  Eastport  on  the  direct  line  across  the  south  side,  midway 
between  Babylon  and  Sag  Harbor. 

The  North  Side  Division,  commonly  called  the  North  Shore  Road,  forms  a 
separate  line  to  itself,  reaching  from  Long  Island  City  (its  only  New  York  ter- 
minus) to  Whitestone,  and  with  its  Great  Neck  Branch  diverging  near  Flushing 
and  ending  at  Great  Neck.  On  its  line  are  Woodside,  Winfield,  Newtown, 
Corona,  Flushing  (Bridge  Street  station),  College  Point  and  Whitestone  ;  and 
returning  to  the  junction  and  taking  the  other  branch  we  pass  Flushing  (Main 
Street  station),  Douglaston,  Bayside,  Little  Neck,  and  end  at  Great  Neck. 

The  Montauk  Division  is  that  almost  parallel  line  of  road  along  the  south 
side  of  the  island  from  Long  Island  City  or  Brooklyn  to  Sag  Harbor.  At 
Fresh  Pond  is  the  junction  of  the  branch  to  Manhattan  Beach,  a  short  cut 
behind  Brooklyn  and  through  a  country  of  farming  land  whose  neatly  kept 
fields,  substantial  houses  and  perfect  roads  reflect  the  traditional  attributes  of  the 
Knickerbockers,  who  have  been  in  possession  there  during  two  and  a  half  centuries, 
straight  to  the  most  famous  and  crowded  day  resort  in  America.  A  branch  diverg- 
ing at  Valley  Stream  takes  the  passenger  to  Far  Rockaway,  and  farther  on, 
at  Pear  sails,  is  the  branch  for  Long  Beach,  both  short  and  interesting  runs. 

These  divisions  and  branches  will  be  properly  specified,  wherever 
the  information  needs  to  be  specific,  throughout  these  pages.  Time- 
tables, presenting  the  schedules  of  trains,  can  be  had  at  all  hotels 
and  railroad  offices  in  New  York,  and  at  all  stations  along  the  line 
of  the  railroad. 

For  the  convenience  of  all  who  need  them,  numerous  Sunday 
trains  will  be  maintained  during  the  season,  from  the  earliest  to  the 
latest  dates ;  the  Long  Island  News  Co. ,  supplying  newspapers  and 
periodicals  to  all  Long  Island,  will,  during  the  summer  months,  run 
special  newspaper  trains  for  the  benefit  of  their  customers,  delivering 
morning  papers  forty  miles  from  New  York  before  breakfast ;  and 
everything,  in  short,  necessary  for  the  perfect  accommodation  of  those 
who  intend  to  give  Long  Island  a  trial  this  year,  will  be  performed 
by  the  Long  Island  Railroad. 

THE  JOURNEY  OVER  THE  ISLAND. 

The  many  trips  that  composed  the  journey  were  all  begun  at  Long 
Island  City,  the  natural  starting  point  from  New  York,  although  they 
might  quite  as  well  have  begun  in  Brooklvn.  from  which  city  passengers 


2 


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have  exactly  the  same  facilities  as  those  from  Long  Island  City.  The 
trip  to  Manhattan  Beach  naturally  suggests  itself  as  a  short  journey 
on  what  is  practically  a  separate  division  of  the  railroad.    One  of  the 
forward  cars  is  a  handsome  Woodruff  parlor-coach  ;    the  others  are 
vehicles  peculiar,  in  this  part  of  the  country,  to  Coney  Island  travel. 
They  are  open  at  the  sides,  but  covered  by  a  roof  to  shut  out  the  sun, 
closed  at  the  ends  to  defend  the  passenger  from  the  wind  produced  by 
the  rapid  forward  motion,  and  appointed  with  curtains  that  are  rolled 
up  out  of  the  way,  but  are  ready  for  use  when  it  rains.  Delightful 
cars  are  these,  and  exactly  suited  for  a  short,  quick  run.    The  pleasing 
view  on  either  side  is  unobstructed,  and,  until  the  salty  breeze  from  the 
sea  is  encountered,  the  delicious  odors  of  field,  of  woodland,  and  of 
gardens,  float  through  the  cars.    What  a  spin  it  is.    A  mere  taste  of 
travel,  a  moment  with  the  flying  wheels,  the  busy  train-hands,  the 
rushing  fences  and  outward  swinging  vistas  of  country-side,  and  then 
the  cry  "All  out  for  Manhattan  Beach. " 


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Manhattan  Beach. — What  need  is  there  to  tell  of  the  glories 

of  Manhattan  Beach?   Who  has  not  been  to 
the  crowned  head  of  all  the  sea-side  places  ? 
At  least,  who  has  not  read  or  heard  of  its  delights  ?  Leaving  the  cars  at 


16  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 
FORENOON    TRAINS  EVERY  HOUR. 
AFTERNOON,  TRAINS  EVERY  HALF  HOUR. 


the  great  Manhattan  Beach  Hotel,  two  things  suggestive  of  a  volume 
impress  one  instantly.     How  cool  and  invigorating  the  air  is.    It  can 


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be  tasted  :  it  can  be  drank  by  the  chestful.  What  crowds  of  people — . 
light-hearted,  laughing  people ;  women,  girls,  men,  boys,  children, 
rich,  poor,  cityfied,  country-clad,  all  sorts — all  thrilled  by  the  tonic  of 
the  atmosphere,  and  all  active,  yet  wondering  at  their  activity.  The 
enormous  building  (lacking  nothing  that  is  to  be  had  at  the  best  hotel 
in  town,  and  yet  possessing  so  much  more  than  can  be  had  there), 


towers  overhead,  gilded  by  the  sunlight,  yet  so  cool  that  the  ladies  in 
the  open  windows  are  wearing  light  wraps  about  their  shoulders.  We 
wonder  as  we  recall  how  hot  it  was  in  town.  People  in  numbers 
sufficient  to  establish  a  western  city  with  four  daily  newspapers  and  an 
opera  house  are  on  the  enormous  piazza.  Some  are  dining,  some  are 
courting,  some  are  promenading ;  others  are  smoking,  day-dreaming, 
chatting,  looking  out  upon  the  velvet  lawns,  the  glorious  banks  of 
flowers,  the  fountain,  the  endless,  twenty-fold  interweaving  lines  of 
people.  The  band — Gilmore's  unequalled — is  playing,  as  it  does 
every  afternoon  and  evening,  and  its  strains,  issuing  from  out  a  great, 
open,  shell-like  structure,  are  so  blended  as  they  cross  the  lawn  that 
it  is  as  though  a  single,  grand,  celestial  instrument  had  given  them 
existence.  Here  is  the  hard,  sand  beach,  dotted  with  bathers  anH 
romping  children  armed  with  spades  and  pails ;  the  emerald,  white- 
capped  billows,  freighted  with  laughing  women  and  sturdy  men. 
There  is  a  gallery  at  the  bathing-house,  and  it  is  peopled  with  onlook- 
ers.   Was  there  ever  such  a  bathing-house  ?    Few  hotels  are  as  big  as 


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it  is  ;  none  contain  as  many  rooms.  There  is  running  fresh  water  in  . 
each  room,  and  those  who  desire  it  cap  take  their  baths  in  still 
water,  either  fresh  or  salt.  All  in  all,  the  island  is  a  human  beehive. 
As  many  as  150,000  people  sometimes  enjoy  themselves  there  in  one 
day.  Manhattan  Beach  is  the  eastern  end  of  the  island,  with  two  miles 
of  sea  front,  and  managed  by  the  Manhattan  Beach  Improvement 
Company.  It  is  removed  from  the  noise,  the  puppet-shows,  the  beer- 
gardens,  merry-go-rounds,  and  showmen's  tents  of  the  public  beach, 
and  offers  a  cool  and  salubrious  retreat  for  tired  or  heated  men  or  for 
families,  with  whatever  degree  of  quiet  or  amusement  is  desired.  All 
can  be  entertained  there,  whether  they  come  to  spend  the  day  at  the 
cost  of  a  dollar,  or  one  hundred  times  that  sum  ;  indeed,  at  the  great 
pavilion,  picknickers  may  spread  their  repasts  and  have  free  attendance. 

THE  ORIENTAL  HOTEL. 

The  most  magnificent  caravansary  on  any  sea-shore — a  palatial 
structure  offering  accommodations  for  700  people,  distant  but  a  few 
minutes  from  New  York  or  Brooklyn,  yet  as  free  from  the  crowd  and 


bustle,  and  blending  of  ill-assorted  company,  as  if  it  were  1,000  miles 
from  town.  The  hotel  is  only  four  years  old,  and  its  appointments 
are  all  most  convenient,  elegant  and  modern.  The  rooms  are  large 
and  beautifully  furnished.  Gas,  running  water,  steam  heating,  and  a 
passenger  elevator  give  hints  of  the  completeness  of  the  arrangements. 


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The  guests  have  always  included  representatives  of  the  most  select 
circles  of  Americans  and  the  most  distinguished  visitors  to  this 
country  from  abroad.  Quiet  and  refinement  not  anywhere  exceeded 
mark  the  very  atmosphere  of  this  palatial,  yet  beautiful,  comfortable  and 
home-like  hotel.    It  is  managed  on  the  American  plan,  table  d'hote. 


THE  MANHATTAN  BEACH  HOTEL. 

The  Manhattan  Beach  Hotel  is  second  only  to  the  Oriental.  It 
was  built  in  1877,  and  has  rooms  for  500  persons.  It  is  run  on  the 
European  plan.  The  portion  above  the  first  floor  is  reserved  for 
permanent  guests,  who  are  there  able  to  enjoy  home-like  quiet  and 
exclusiveness.  There  is  no  better  cuisine  in  the  countrv,  no  better 
attendance  can  possibly  be  had  or  wished  for,  and  provision  is  made  as 
well  for  those  who  limit  their  expenses  as  for  those  who  need  not  do  so. 

There  is  a  vast  and  astonishing  difference  between  Manhattan 
Beach  and  the  western  or  public  end  of  Coney  Island.  It  has  always 
been  the  aim  of  the  company  to  maintain  the  great  resort  not  only  as 
an  absolutely  safe  retreat,  even  for  ladies,  nurses  and  children,  but  to 
render  it  absolutely  free  from  whatever  could  give  offence  or  mar  well- 
ordered  pleasure. 


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THE  SOUTH  SIDE  RESORTS. 


BY  THE  SEA 


ONCE  again  a  start  is  made  from  Long  Island  City,  this  time  in 
handsome,  roomy  coaches,  equaling  in  beauty  and  in  gentleness 
of  motion  any  yet  designed,  on  the  way  toward  a  journey  to  the  farther 
end  of  the  island.    The  first  noteworthy  stop  is  at 

Richmond  Hill,  a  picturesque  suburb,  less  than  half  an  hour 

distant  from  New  York  or  Brooklyn.  Here 
one  perceives  what  the  railroad  has  done 


8  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 
IB  TRAINS  OAILY.  7  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


and  is  doing  for  the  island.  Given  ten  trains  a  day  each  way,  this 
long  neglected  site  for  a  model  city  suddenly  took  on  new  life,  and  one 
may  see  from  the  car  windows  how  greatly  the  pretty  new  cottages 
outnumber  the  modest  old  ones.  The  fruit  and  shade  trees,  the  rich- 
hued  gardens  and  the  lawns,  attest  the  virtues  of  the  soil ;  and  as  for 
the  air,  which,  as  the  genial  end-man  remarked,  ''is  a  thing  we  all 
look  at  but  none  of  us  ever  see,"  its  salubrity  may  be  judged  of  by  the 
fact  that  from  the  hills  on  which  the  houses  rest,  the  Sound  and  the 
ocean  are  enclosed  within  the  horizon  on  two  sides.  Richmond  Hill 
has  its  post-office,  school,  church,  and  water-works ;  while  close  at 
hand,  and  before  the  train  has  moved  all  of  the  second  mile  away,  are 
the  shaded  streets  of  busy  and  ambitious  old 

Jamaica. — From  the  cars  the  ancient  burgh  presents  the  appear- 
ance merely  of  a  railroad  centre,  and  that  it 
really  is,  for  here  the  main  divisions  of  the 
railroad  system  separate ;  and  as  all  the  branches,  except  one,  diverge 
at  points  farther  east,  it  follows  that  Jamaica  has  the  full  benefit 
of  every  effort  of  the  railroad  managers  to  meet  the  varying  demands 
of  other  localities.  But  Jamaica  has  many  phases.  It  is  one  of  the 
oldest  settlements  in  the  country,  and  the  descendants  of  some  of 
its  founders  yet  remain  in  numbers  sufficient  to  maintain  a  very 
select  and  dignified  society.  Some  most  interesting  old  ante-revolu- 
tionary houses  lend  interest  to  the  broad,  well-shaded  streets,  along 


10  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 
50  TRAINS  DAILY.  40  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


which  are  to  be  seen  many  trees  older  and  nobler  than  can  easily  be 
found  in  a  day  of  journeying  elsewhere.  Fine  residences  line  these 
cool  avenues,  and  mingled  with  these  are  some  pretty  and  substantial 
church  buildings  and  an  unusual  number  of  schools.  The  churches 
are  Episcopal,  Roman  Catholic,  Methodist,  Baptist,  Reformed,  Lu- 
theran and  Presbyterian  ;  the  schools  are  the  five  common  schools, 
St.  Monica  (Roman  Catholic),  Maple  Hall  Institute  and  Union  Hall 
Seminary.  Three  newspapers  are  published  there,  the  Democrat,  the 
Farmer,  and  the  Standard.  Here  is  to  be  found  a  constantly  and 
rapidly  increasing  population  of  men  doing  business  in  New  York  and 
Brooklyn.  Merchants  are  among  them,  who  live  here  amid  luxury, 
and  clerks  also,  who  enjoy  a  degree  of  comfort  not  to  be  attained 
when  city  rents  are  taken  from  their  earnings.  Jamaica  is  nearer  to 
the  City  Hall  than  the  upper  end  of  Central  Park  was  before  the  elevated 
railroads  were  constructed.  It  is  nearer  now  than  the  annexed  dis- 
trict, about  as  near  as  Harlem,  and  a  thousand-fold  superior,  for  the 
care  of  health  and  the  rearing  of  children,  to  either  of  those  places  ; 
in  short,  the  railroad  journey  is  made  in  eighteen  minutes.  There 
are  beautiful  drives  through  a  rich  farm  and  garden  country,  and  along 
avenues  decked  with  pretty  homes  and  grounds,  in  all  directions  outside 
Jamaica.  Between  lines  of  waving  green  or  gold,  according  to  the 
month,  the  ride  to 

Springfield  is  over  the  same  rich  country.    This  village  is 


Revolution  to  recover  from  malaria.  (Who  is  it  that  says  malaria  is 
a  modern  accomplishment,  invented  by  the  city  doctors  ?)  The  British 
soldiers  had  such  bad  treatment  at  our  hands  when  they  were  here, 
and  have  had  so  few  kind  words  since,  that  it  is  with  pleasure  that 
we  commend  their  behavior,  not  in  getting  the  malaria,  but  in  coming 
to  Long  Island  to  get  rid  of  it.  Springs  of  the  most  delicious,  clear, 
crystal  water  abound,  and  the  most  beautiful  verdure  clothes  the  land 
all  the  way  up  to  and  far  beyond 

Valley  Stream. — This  is  the  point  of  junction  with  the  Rock- 


13  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 


14  TRAINS  DAILY.  4  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


famed  as  having  been  the  place  to  which 
some  British  troops  were  sent  during  the 


17  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 


14  TRAINS  DAILY. 


4  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


away  Branch.  It  is  a  modest  village  con- 
taining two  small  hotels  and  a  church,  and 


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situated  in  a  delightful  farming  country,  whose  inhabitants  boast  of 
wondrous  early  vegetables  and  good  autumn  shooting.  Here  we 
leave  the  Montauk  Division  to  make  a  short  trip  along 

THE  ROCKAWAY  BRANCH, 

Through  a  lovely  country  to  the  sea-side.  The  journey  is  made  at 
right  angles  to  the  Division  we  are  leaving  behind,  and  through  the 
centre  of  the  peninsula  between  Jamaica  Bay  and  Hempstead  Bay. 
Hewlett's,  Woodsburgh,  Ocean  Point,  and  Lawrence  provide  a  con- 
tinuous line  of  houses  along  the  route.  They  are  quiet,  fresh-air 
points,  at  all  of  which  the  fare  is  excellent  and  the  rates  are  low.  Of 
these  places, 


Woodsburg'h  is  most  attractively  situated  three  miles  from 

the  beach,  and  three-eighths  of  a  mile  from 
the  bay.    It  owes  its  existence  and  much 


19  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 

20  TRAINS  DAILY.         16    TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


of  its  attractiveness  to  the  late  Samuel  Wood,  a  wealthy  resident  of 
Brooklyn,  whose  aim  was  to  build  a  town  not  even  second  to  Garden 
City.  The  place  commands  a  fine  view  of  Jamaica  Bay,  Great 
South  Bay  and  the  ocean,  as  well  as  of  the  neighboring  country.  In 
1870  the  mammoth  Pavilion  Hotel,  subsequently  doubled  in  size  and 
now  covering  28,000  square  feet,  was  completed.  It  is  equal  to  any 
hotel  in  the  country  for  comfort,  and  contains  250  elegantly  furnished 
and  well  ventilated  rooms  ;  water,  gas  and  steam  throughout,  and 
offers  from  its  roomy  piazzas  grand  views  upon  the  sea  and  land. 
A  spacious  bathing-house  for  still-water  bathing  is  exclusively  for 
the  guests  of  the  house.    Boulevard  Avenue,  a  feature  of  the  place, 


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one  hundred  feet  wide  and  lined  with  shade  trees,  extends  from  the 
railroad  to  the  shore.  There  are  many  delightful  cottages  for  summer 
residents  or  permanent  inhabitants.  Of  the  latter  class  there  are 
already  very  many  who  do  business  daily  in  Brooklyn  or  New  York. 
The  estate  is  ably  managed  by  A.  L.  Simonson,  Esq.,  trustee,  Temple 
Court,  N.  Y.  From 

Lawrence  or  Ocean  Point,  we  reach  Isle  of  Wight,  the 

newest  of  all  stylish  claimants  for  popular 
favor.    A  great  and  elegant  hotel  surrounded 


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by  grounds  which,  when  fully  improved,  will  be  perfect  in  their 
beauty  and  sanitary  arrangements,  has  been  established  by  wealthy 
New  Yorkers.  There  are  also  some  pretty  cottages  to  rent  for  one 
or  more  families,  and  run  in  connection  with  the  hotel.  These 
cottages  contained  a  distinguished  company  last  summer.  Here  are 
to  be  enjoyed  contact  with  an  excellent  class  of  boarders,  the  com- 
forts of  a  Fifth  Avenue  hostelry,  still-water  and  sea  bathing,  boating, 
fishing,  and  all  out-door  sports.  There  is  telegraph  and  telephone 
communication  with  the  city.  At  last  the  sea,  so  long  foreshadowed 
in  the  gradual  change  of  soil  and  vegetation,  lies  right  before  us  at 
Far  Kockaway. — There  are  thousands  of  persons  who  think 

that,  even  in  the  infinite  variety  of  Nature's 
offerings,  there  can  be  nothing  anywhere  as 


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delightful  as  Far  Rockaway.  Other  newer  places  take  on  more  show 
and  style ;  boast  of  fine  bands  and  big  hotels,  of  foreign  lords  as  guests, 
and  blacks  in  livery  to  wait  upon  the  rooms  and  tables ;  of  glittering 
cavalcades  or  famous  drives,  and —  But  what  are  all  these  things  com- 
pared with  honest,  old-fashioned,  Democratic,  plain  and  comfortable 
Far  Rockaway  ?  It  is  not  right  on  the  ocean  ;  instead,  it  crowns  an 
elevated  plateau  upon  a  narrow  inlet  for  safety-loving  women  and  chil- 
dren to  row  upon,  to  sail  upon,  for  still-water  bathing,  aye,  and  for 
fishing  as  well.  Jamaica  Bay,  a  little  westward,  is  a  still  larger  field 
for  these  excursions.  If  you  want  the  other  thing,  cross  the  inlet 
and  stand  upon  the  narrow  reef  of  sand  five  minutes  distant,  and  there 
enjoy  the  surf.  The  settlement  is  made  up  of  hotels  of  varying  sizes, 
shapes,  rates  and  degrees  of  comfort ;  but  at  each  the  fish  and  chicken 
are  certain  to  be  fresh,  at  each  the  breezes  are  equally  delightful ;  and 


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behind  them  all  is  the  same  charming  back  country,  with  its  woodland 

walks,  its  rural  drives,  its  extra-fertile  fields.  The 

a  school,  court-house,  post- 
telephone  and  telegraph.  There 
is  a  choice  society  of  cot- 
tage residents  also,  com- 
posed of  the  households  of 
New  Yorkers,  who  are  able 
to  breakfast  and  dine  at  the 
sea-side,  and  yet  spend  the 
business  hours  in  town. 
New  York  and  Brooklyn 
are  forty-fiv^  minutes  dis- 
tant. Two  hundred  of 
these  cottages  were  put  up 
the  last  two  years  their 
only  a  slightly  lower  rate, 
remain  open  the  year 
tage  owners  are  Judge 
the  Hon.  Patrick  Keenan, 
Reed  of  the  Hoffman 
Lord,  Mr.  Daniel  Lord, 
Jr.,  Alex.  H.  Stevens,  and  a  score  of  others  almost  as  well  known. 

"WAVE  crest"  at  far  rockaway. 
Five  years  ago  a  few  gentlemen  owning  country  places  at  Far 
Rockaway  conceived  the  idea  of  purchasing  the  property  known  as  the 
Rockawav  Marine  Pavilion  land,  and  the  estate  of  the  late  Horace  F. 
Clark,  and  converting  it — some  eighty'  acres  in  all — into  a  park  exclu- 
sively for  private  residences.  That  this  idea  was  good  is  now  very 
apparent  In  1880  there  were  within  the  present  enclosure  exactly  five 
cottages,  while  last  summer  there  were  thirty,  all  occupied  by  private 
families.  Five  others  are  now  in  course  of  construction.  Wave  Crest 
is  one  of  the  very  few  head-lands  on  the  south  shore  of  Long  Island, 
within  one  hundred  miles  of  New  York.  Its  elevation  is  about  thirty 
feet,  and  the  formation  is  a  series  of  bluffs  and  undulating  slopes 
facing  the  ocean.    Enclosed  as  it  is  with  gates  and  lodges,  it  is'  freed 


in  three  years,  and  during 
number  has  increased  at 
A  large  fraction  of  these 
around.  Among  the  cot- 
Donohue,  Nathaniel  Jarvis, 
ex-Judge  Alker,  C.  H. 
House,    Mr.    Daniel  D. 


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from  the  annoyance  of  transient  visitors.  The  Inlet,  which  runs  east 
and  west  between  the  main-land  and  the  beach,  and  is  some  four 
hundred  yards  wide,  offers  excellent  opportunities  for  fishing,  sailing, 
and  still-water  bathing.  A  sail  can  be  had  from  Wave  Crest  past  Isle 
of  Wight,  Long  Beach,  on  to  Fire  Island  and  beyond,  without  going 
outside  the  bar.  The  shores  of  the  Inlet,  sloping  gradually,  render  it 
absolutely  safe.  The  outer  beach,  reached  by  ferry-boats  running  night 
and  day  from  the  main-land,  has  numerous  bathing-pavilions,  private 
bath-houses,  etc.,  and  offers  every  facility  for  surf- bathing.  This  beach 
has  been  famous  for  many  years.  The  land  of  Wave  Crest  is  divided 
into  plots  varying  in  size  from  one-quarter  of  an  acre  upward,  and  is 
sold  subject  to  such  restrictions  as  are  deemed  necessary  to  insure 
privacy  and  comfort.  The  shell  roads  and  paths  are  curved  pictur- 
esquely, and  lend  to  the  grounds  the  appearance  of  a  private  park. 
Every  house  has  access  to  the  sewer-pipes,  which  are  laid  out  in  the 
most  thorough  manner  in  all  the  streets.  Its  accessibility  to  New  York 
is  being  annually  increased.  In  the  summer  through  trains  leave  at 
short  intervals  and  reach  Long  Island  City  in  forty  minutes,  where 
close  connection  is  made  with  up  and  down-town  New  York.  Wave 
Crest  contains  the  residences  of  the  following  gentlemen  :  Messrs.  John 
H.  Cheever,  W.  T.  Buckley,  Dr.  G.  H.  Wynkoop,  E.  A.  Brinckerhoff, 
Henry  M.  Taber,  Dr.  Edward  Curtis,  Lowell  Lincoln,  Edward  N. 
Dickerson,  C.  C.  Beaman,  J.  H.  Strong,  John  G.  Heckscher,  E.  H. 
Harriman,  George  S.  Greene,  Jr.,  and  many  others.  Returning  to  the 
Montauk  Division  at  Valley  Stream,  and  journeying  onward  toward  the 
east,  the  next  turning  point  is 

Pearsall's,  a  pretty  little  inland  town,  and  the  junction  for 

the  branch  to  Long  Beach.  The  town  pre- 
sents a  pleasing  picture  in  green  and  white  ; 


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and  its  two  factories,  two  hotels  (the  Furman  House  and  Dr.  Pettit's), 
its  post-office,  telegraph  and  telephone  facilities,  besides  the  invariably 
appearing  new  growth  of  frame  cottages,  give  it  the  right  to  assume 
the  air  of  business  that  distinguishes  it. 

East  Rockaway,  nearer  the  bay,  though  small  in  size,  is  a 

great  shipping  place  for  oysters,  and  boasts 
of  its  own  growing  patronage  by  summer 


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boarders.  Brooklyn  amateur  fishermen  favor  it.  The  rates  for  board 
are  very  reasonable,  and  the  erection  of  several  cottages  is  in  con- 
templation. Farther  still,  and  reached  in  quick  time,  over  as  fine 
a  stretch  of  railroad  track  as  there  is  in  the  country,  is 


■v 


Long  Beach. — Long  Beach,  though  a  new-comer  in  the  world 

of  watering-places,  has  attracted  popular 
attention  and  admiration  because  of  the  points 


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in  which  it  excels  its  New  Jersey  and  New  England  competitors.  The 
beach  is  simply  without  a  rival.  It  is  as  level  as  a  concrete  walk,  and 
is  delightful  either  to  the  feet  of  pedestrians  or  to  those  who  enjoy 
the  drive  of  seven  miles  beside  the  breakers.  It  slopes  so  gently  that 
one  must  walk  the  length  of  two  city  blocks  outward  in  order  to  find 
a  depth  sufficient  to  cover  a  man  of  ordinary  stature  standing  up. 
There  is  no  under-tow,  and  the  currents  never  bring  to  the  strand  any 
of  the  city's  refuse,  as  is  the  case  in  other  localities,  to  such  an 
extent  as  to  seriously  interfere  with  pleasure  at  the  sea-side.  The  hotel 
is  one  of  the  truest  and  most  beautiful  reproductions  of  the  architect- 
ure peculiar  to  Queen  Anne's  time — a  roomy,  comfortable,  elegantly 


furnished  and  conveniently  arranged  hostelry,  again  in  the  hands  of  that 
master  of  the  art  of  entertaining,  Mr.  R.  H.  Southgate,  with  Mr.  D. 
S.  Hammond  of  the  Bristol,  N.  Y.  The  music  will  be  kept  at  its 
wonted  grade.  Thomas,  the  world-renowned,  will  hold  the  baton 
this  season.  The  lessees  of  the  cottages  will  once  again  establish  the 
delightful  social  circle,  which  has  rendered  the  place  distinguished  from 
the  stand-point  of  society  ;  and  those  who  join  the  larger  coterie  at  the 
hotel,  whether  they  establish  their  homes  there  with  their  families 
■ — riding  to  and  from  the  city,  by  an  hour's  journey  twice  a  day — or 
merely  spend  an  occasional  day  there,  are  equally  certain  to  enjoy 
themselves.  It  does  not  take  many  minutes  to  return  again  to  the 
line  of  the  Montauk  Division,  hereafter  to  ride  straight  ahead  in  swift 
trains  of  handsome  and  comfortable  coaches,  on  the  way  direct  from 
Long  Island  City  and  Brooklyn,  to  Sag  Harbor.  The  prospect  from 
the  car  windows  is  most  enticing.    The  first  halt  is  at 

Rockville  Centre,  smiling  in  the  heart  of  a  lovely  country 

region — a  pretty  little  settlement  of  cottages 
peeping  at  the  shaded  streets  from  over  gar- 
dens and  behind  trees.  There  are  two  small  hotels,  La  Roza  and 
Lott's ;  a  post-office,  telegraph  station,  Methodist  and  Baptist  churches, 
but  no  regular  boarding  cottages.    Two  miles  farther  on, 

Baldwin's  lies  between  inviting  groves,  in  a  country-side  seamed 

with  brooks  and  gleaming  with  tiny  lakes, 
beautified  by  rich  edgings  of  verdure,  and 
famous  for  trout.  Here  are  several  boarding  cottages,  a  hotel,  two 
churches,  and  many  handsome  dwellings.  Hempstead  Bay  is  only  \y2 
miles  distant. 

Freeport. — This  is  larger  than  its  neighbors,  and  merits  the 
r—  I    gratitude  of  New  Yorkers  for  the  immense 

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!  12  trains  daily.  4  trains  Sunday.  number  of  oysters — luscious  Rockaways — 
which  its  citizens  rake  up  from  Hempstead  Bay  and  ship  to  the  city. 
It  has  long  been  popular  as  a  summer  boarding  place,  and,  though 
the  sea  air  is  breathed  there,  it  is  as  truly  rustic,  with  its  groves,  its 
smiling  farms,  its  babbling  streams,  shining  ponds  and  shaded  lanes, 
as  if  it  were  in  Middle  England— although,  to  tell  the  truth,  it  is  so 
much  more  like  a  bit  of  Holland,  that,  perhaps,  it  should  be  called  a 


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' '  Dutch  Interior  "  A  pleasant  walk  or  drive  soon  ends  at  the  bay. 
There  are  two  hotels,  the  telegraph,  post-office,  and  Methodist  and 
Presbyterian  churches.    Only  half  as  large  a  place  is 

Merrick. — This  is  a  quiet  farming  village,  with  milk  for  its 

staple,  and  popular  camp -meeting  grounds 
to  spread  its  fame.    Here  the  rich  land,  so 


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plenty  on  the  island,  yet  so  long  overlooked,  has  been  made  to 
demonstrate  its  full  value,  by  a  community  grown  very  rich  from 
farming.  Mr.  P.  C.  Barnum,  of  New  York,  has  his  great  model  farm 
not  far  from  here,  noted  for  the  cattle  it  supports  and  the  dairy 
products  it  returns.  Trout  streams  and  ponds  continue  in  plenty. 
There  is  a  post-office  and  telegraph  in  the  village.     Farther  on,  at 

Bellmore,  there  is  no  change  in  the  scene.  The  distinctive 
(      "  ~      I    feature  of  the  place  is  the  lon^  creek,  navi-- 

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io  trains  daily.  4  trains  sunday.  |  gable  for  boats  of  200  tons  burden.  The 
shooting  and  salt  and  fresh  water  fishing  are  good  there  and  at 

Ridgewood,  from  whose  enormous  reservoir  Brooklyn  is  sup- 
plied with  a  plenitude  of  the  same  sparkling, 
diamond  -  clear,  refreshing  spring  water  we 
have  been  admiring  throughout  our  journey.  Two  miles  more,  and 
the  train  hauls  up  at 

South.  Oyster  Bay,  one  of  those  fortunate  resorts  with  the 

means  to  attract  visitors  in  every  month  of  the 
year.  Heretofore  it  has  been  observed  that 
each  town  is  built  along  a  road  at  right  angles  to  the  car  tracks,  stretch- 
ing down  toward  the  salt  water,  as  if  divided  in  inclination,  and  therefore 
reaching  out  both  hands  contrariwise — one  toward  the  sea  from  which 
so  much  of  livelihood  is  gained,  the  other  toward  the  revivifying  and 
enriching  railroad.  Not  so  South  Oyster  Bay.  Rendered  independent 
by  greater  fame  than  some  of  the  others,  she  seems  to  have  yielded  to 
first  inclinations,  and  run  out  an  L  facing  the  bay.  The  wrater  here  is 
the  beginning  of  the  Great  South  Bay,  and  visitors  can  sail  or  row  all 
the  way  to  Quogue,  past  Babylon,  Fire  Island,  Islip,  Patchogue,  and  all 
the  little  bay  ports.  The  surf  is  four  miles  away,  at  Jones'  Beach,  the 
next  division  to  Long  Beach,  in  the  great  outer  sand-bar  that  lies 
between  the  ocean  and  the  south-side  bays.    Very  pretty  country  is  this, 


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half  sea-side  and  half  pastoral,  decked  with  groves  and  giant  single 
trees,  dotted  with  silvery  ponds  and  streams,  and  abounding  in  pretty 
drives.  Hotels  and  boarding  houses  are  plenty,  and  sportsmen  find 
attractions  the  year  around.  The  famous  trout -ponds  of  Messrs. 
William  Floyd-Jones,  and  Elbert  Floyd-Jones  are  here.  An  Episcopal 
and  a  Methodist  church,  telegraph  station  and  post-office  are  among 
the  institutions  of  the  village.    The  next  station  is 

Amityville,  a  place  of  considerable  local  importance,  having 

more  than  1,500  population,  four  hotels,  and 
all  the  modern  appointments  of  a  thriving 
town.  Its  summer  population  is  at  least  as  much  again,  for  it  has  for 
many  years  been  a  favorite  resort.  Recently  it  put  out  a  surf-side 
annex  on  Oak  Island  Beach,  across  the  bay,  where  there  is  now  a 
sprinkling  of  cottages,  and  a  pavilion  for  the  public.  The  four-mile  sail 
to  the  beach  is  delightful  and  cheap.  The  beauties  of  nature  are  not  a 
whit  less  numerous  and  rich  than  in  the  neighboring  villages.  Next, 
we  come  to 

Breslau,   scene  of  a   German   colonization  enterprise  much 

more  ambitious  in  its  original  design  than 
in  its  realization,  but  far  prettier  and  more 
attractive  now,  in  its  rural  beauty,  than  if  its  projectors  had  succeeded 
in  rearing  a  great  geometric  array  of  right-angled  streets  walled  in  with 
compact  rows  of  stores  and  houses.  Many  pretty  streets  are  laid  out, 
and  houses  are  constantly  springing  up.  The  people  are  largely 
Germans,  and  they  maintain  a  brewery,  tassel  factor}',  and  picture-frame 
establishment,  three  churches,  a  school,  post-offices,  stores  and  hotels. 
Just  beyond,  along  a  beautiful  stretch  of  country,  is 

Babylon. — Babylon  is,   comparatively  speaking,  a  big  place, 

and,  speaking  precisely,  it  is  sufficiently  large 
to  provide  a  summer  community  prolific 
in  amusement  resources  and  strong  in  social  impulses.  It  is  doubled 
in  interest  by  having  Fire  Island  sufficiently  close  at  hand  to  render 
it  the  most  versatile  in  its  powers  of  entertainment  of  any  place 
upon  the  south  shore.  Let  it  be  imagined  that  there  are — as  there 
must  ever  be  with  all  places — persons  who  know  nothing  at  all  about 
Babvlon.     Here,  then,  is  a  thriving  country  town,  showing  prosperity, 


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pride  and  enterprise  in  every  feature,  displaying  in  the  highest  degree 
the  characteristic  cleanliness  and  neatness  to  be  found  wherever  Long 
Islanders  are  concerned — a  spick-and-span  array  of  cottages  embowered 
in  trees,  flowers  and  shrubbery,  and  resting  on  the  shore  of  a  great, 
blue-bosomed,  green-edged  tranquil  bay.  The  last  admirer  who 
essayed  to  describe  its  varied  charms  in  a  single  phrase  called  it  "the 
Newport  of  Long  Island, "  but,  while  that  was  meant  for  flattery,  it  was 
not  even  true  praise.  It  combines  a  bit  of  Florida  and  a  glimpse  of 
the  Bermudas,  with  Nantucket  at  arm's  reach.  Nature  has  been  prodi- 
gal of  ornament  and  generous  with  her  substantial  comforts.  Two 
large  streams,  and  many  smaller  ones,  arising  back  in  the  hills,  pour 
their  pellucid  ice-cold  volumes  through  picturesque  surroundings,  past 
the  town  and  into  the  azure  bay.  The  skies,  the  summer  sunsets  and 
the  moonlight  on  the  waters  provoke  rhapsodies  of  delight,  and  every 
respiration  in  that  singularly  pleasant  air  brings  exhilaration  and  vigor. 
The  drives  are  carefully  maintained  in  good  condition,  and  one  in 
particular,  the  ' '  old  post  road, "  leading  east  from  the  village  centre, 
passes  a  double  panorama  of  palatial  villas  and  mansions  surrounded 
by  parks  and  tasteful  grounds.  Foliage,  flowers  and  fountains  are  to  be 
seen  for  miles  on  either  side  ;  while  the  magnificent  equipages  of  the 
residents  pass  and  repass  constantly.  All  the  surroundings  are  eloquent 
of  the  presence  of  wealth  and  culture ;  and  yet  no  one  who  can  afford 
a  vacation  in  the  country  can  fail  to  find  accommodation  here  within 
his  means.  New  York  is  largely  represented  by  some  of  her  wealthiest 
citizens ;  you  pass  in  succession  the  villas  and  stately  cottages  of 
Edward  Post,  H.  L.  DeForest,  Effingham  Sutton,  H.  C.  Hempburn, 
John  B.  Ireland,  G.  C.  McGoun,  Ex-Senator  Wagstaff,  Henry  Have- 
in  ever,  W.  P.  Clyde,  B.  W.  Silliman,  Richard  Arnold  and  Henry  B. 
Hyde.  Trout  ponds  are  to  be  found  on  several  of  the  estates.  Two 
miles  north  of  Babylon  is  the  princely  mansion  and  park  of  August 
Belmont.  Close  by  are  his  training  ground  and  private  race  track 
for  his  celebrated  horses ;  and  in  close  proximity  is  situated  the 
property  of  Austin  Corbin,  President  of  the  Long  Island  and  of  sev- 
eral other  railroads.  This  elegant  place,  modestly  called  a  farm,  is 
in  reality  a  park.  Upon  it  is  the  owner's  handsome  residence 
and  carriage  houses,  stables  and  barns,  each  prettily  designed  and 


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substantially  constructed.  The  oak  grove,  lawns,  drives,  artistic  floral 
effects,  fountains  and  pond,  wherefrom  President  Arthur  has  landed 
many  a  speckled  beauty,  combine  to  make  the  estate  notable  even  in 
that  neighborhood.  But  the  piece  de  resistance  at  Babylon  is  the  "Ar- 
gyle. "  This  imposing  and  costly  structure,  with  its  picturesque  grounds, 
is  the  property  of  a  number  of  English  capitalists  who,  conjointly  with 
Austin  Corbin  and  associates,  constitute  ''  The  Long  Island  Improve- 
ment Company,"  with  $5,000,000  capital.  The  hotel  is  built  in  the 
Queen  Anne  style,  and  can  accommodate  250  guests  ;  its  patrons  are 
of  a  class  accustomed  to  ample  accommodation,  and  apartments  en 
suite  are  the  rule.  The  house,  internally,  is  a  study  of  comfort ;  all  city 
improvements  are  in  use.  Gas,  sewerage,  running  water,  etc.,  supply 
conveniences  on  a  par  with  those  in  the  best  New  York  hotels. 
Argvle  Park  consists  of  seventy  acres  of  high  ground,  twenty-five  of 
which  are  surrendered  to  a  pretty  lake.  Boats  gently  glide  over  its 
placid  surface,  and  ,the  groves  and  walks  resound  with  the  songs  of 
birds.  As  you  drive  along  the  winding  roads  that  lead  through  the 
park  to  the  hotel  unique  cottages,  thirteen  in  number,  greet  your 
eyes.  They  conform  to  the  Queen  Anne  order  of  architecture,  and 
contain  the  same  conveniences  as  are  to  be  found  in  the  hotel. 
Connection  by  telephone  is  had  with  the  Argyle,  and  the  dwellers  in 
the  cottages  can,  if  so  inclined,  dispense  with  the  annoyances  of  the 
kitchen  and  order  meals  from  the  hotel.  The  house  is  now  in  its 
third  season,  and  has  been  notably  successful.  Not  the  least  among 
the  comforts  of  Babylon  are  the  conveniences  at  its  railroad  depot — 
a  large  and  handsome  building,  set  in  beautified  grounds,  with  room 
for  any  number  of  vehicles,  and  a  corps  of  intelligent  employes. 

Fire  Island. — Fire  Island,  three  miles  north  and  two  miles  east 
of  Babylon,  across  the  still  waters  of  the  Great  South  Bay,  has  been  a 
favored  resort  since  1856,  and  seems  to  possess  some  mysterious  author- 
ity over  the  best  physicians,  even  as  far  west  as  the  Mississippi  ;  in 
consequence  of  which  they  have  ever  been  prone  to  send  conval- 
escents there  to  regain  their  full  quota  of  strength.  The  Fire  Island 
Hotel  is  owned  and  managed  by  Captain  Sammis,  who  has  also  large 
interests  in  Babylon.  The  hotel  has  no  pretensions  to  architectural 
eccentricity,  but  is  plain  outside  and  comfortable  within.    The  table 


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is  always  firs_t^class  ;  the  quantity  being  proportioned  to  the  appetite 
and  the  character  being  eclectic,  with  a  leaning  toward  marine  fare, 
but  a  strong  reliance  upon  the  fresh,  rich  products  of  Long  Island's 
farms.  Captain  Sammis,  says:  "If  a  man  don't  eat  he  can't  live;" 
and  the  worst  victims  of  dyspepsia,  after  sojourning  with  the  Captain 
a  short  time,  become  able  companions  at  table.  For  surf-bathing 
Fire  Island  has  a  world-wide  reputation ;  a  plunge  in  its  limpid  waves 


is  as  refreshing  to  the  tired  brain  and  steadying  to  weakened  nerves 
as  a  shock  from  a  galvanic  batten'.  The  hard,  level  beach  is  one  of 
the  glories  of  the  place,  while  the  breezes  that  blow,  mostly  from  the 
sea,  are  laden  with  health-giving  essences.  The  victims  of  hay  fever, 
asthma,  malaria  and  ague  are  sent  here  when  every  other  method  of 
cure  has  proved  a  failure.  A  roomy  steamer  conveys  visitors  across 
the  bay  from  the  wharf,  situated  about  a  mile  to  the  south  ;  horse  cars 
run  to  this  point  from  the  railroad  depot.  Fire  Island  Light  and 
Life  Saving  Station  are  visited  during  the  season  by  thousands  from  the 
main-land.  The  hotel  has  its  own  fishing  and  sailing  boats,  and  bathing 
houses  both  for  surf  and  still  water,  and  with  competent  men  in 
charge. 

On  the  cars  again  and  settled  back  in  a  window  corner  on  a 
cushioned  seat,  as  used  to  the  sensation  of  railroad  riding,  in  all 
probability,  as  a  drummer  or  traveling  player,  but  not  with  such  feelings 
as  theirs  must  too  often  be.  True,  we  have  seen  a  score  of  pretty 
resorts,  including  Babylon  and  Fire  Island ;  but  we  have  said  the  south 
shore  holds  a  chain  of  watering  places,  and  it  is  a  small  chain  that  has 
but  twenty  links.    Our  voyage  is  one  of  discovery.    The  air  replenishes 


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our  energy,  the  smiling  landscapes  beckon  us  on.  Such  a  trip  is  like 
the  mental  journey  along  the  pages  of  a  novel  ;  no  matter  what  we 
find  here  and  there,  we  feel  confident  that  the  best  is  farther  on,  until 
there  is  nothing  but  the  thrilling,  comforting  climax  and  the  close. 
But  there,  the  air-brake's  clasp  upon  the  wheels  is  warning  of  the 
neighborhood  of 

Bay  Shore.— Another  succession  of  pretty  villas  and  more 

pretentious  summer  houses,  some  that  have 
yielded  comfort  through  many  seasons,  and 
others  but  just  abandoned  by  the  builders.  We  call  attention  to  this 
boom  in  building,  and  a  nut-brown,  wrinkled-visaged  native  gravely 
informs  us  that  it  seems  to  him  "'s  if  the  hull  of  New  York  and 
Brooklyn's  a-going  to  locate  here.  "''  Half  a  mile  along  a  fine  drive 
takes  us  to  the  bay  side,  where  we  may  bathe,  fish  or  sail  to  our 
heart's  content,  and  not  spend  a  fortune  for  the  enjoyment.  For 
children  this  is  a  paradise  ;  they  swarm  from  out  of  the  cottages, 
rosy  cheeked  and  healthy — fine  nurture  this  for  vigorous  manhood  and 
blooming  womanliness.  It  is  time  something  was  said  of  the  mosquitoes 
— yet  the  only  thing  that  can  be  said  is  that  there  are  none.  There 
are  three  hotels  and  a  number  of  boarding  cottages ;  four  churches — 
Episcopal,  Catholic,  Methodist  and  Congregational.  The  Olympic  Club 
House,  replete  with  every  convenience  for  yachting  and  fishing,  is  on  the 
shore.  The  members  of  the  club  spend  most  of  each  season  here, 
entertaining  their  friends  bountifully.  That  warning  whistle  is  for 
Islip. — Ah !  time  has  not  withered  nor  familiarity  staled  thy 

charms,  fair  bay-side  village.  Smiling  ponds 
and  leaping  streams  abound  here,  and  vege- 


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tation,  either  wild  or  trained,  shades  and  beautifies  every  vista.  The 
Great  South  Bay  is  about  two  miles  off,  but  sail-boats  come  up  Champ- 
lin's  Creek,  not  far  from  the  hotels.  Fire  Island  is  only  five  miles 
away.  Mr.  Wm.  K.  Vanderbilt  erected  here  a  handsome  church  in 
the  Gothic  style.  Service  every  Sunday.  Mrs.  Vanderbilt  has  built  a 
Seaside  Sanitarium  on  Great  River,  and  numbers  of  invalid  children 
from  New  York  are  brought  here  every  summer.  The  principal  hotel 
is  the  Pavilion,  owned  by  Mr.  J^mes  Slater,  the  proprietor  of  the 
Berkley,  Fifth  Avenue  and  Ninth   Street,   New  York.     This  is  an 


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exceptionally  fine  house,  and  will  accommodate  over  125  guests.  It 
is  elegantly  furnished,  lighted  with  gas  and  heated  with  steam  when 
necessary.  All  the  rooms  are  large  and  airy,  and  everything  about 
the  house  suggests  neatness,  elegance  and  comfort.     Attached  to  the 


hotel  are  four  cottages  within  the  grounds  —  rented  throughout  the 
season,  fully  furnished,  to  first-class  parties.  The  occupants  can  have 
their  own  sen-ants,  or  can  take  their  meals  at  or  from  the  hotel,  as 
they  may  choose.  The  grounds  contain  a  private  trout  pond.  The 
Lake  House,  owned  and  managed  by  Amos  R.  Stellenwerf  since  1856, 
is  a  cosey,  old-fashioned  house,  where  good  cooking,  comfortable 
rooms,  civil  attendants  and  cleanliness  are  the  rule.  Close  by  the 
house  is  a  large  trout  pond,  with  row-boats  and  a  bathing-house  for 
fresh-water  bathers.  There  is  stabling  for  fifty  horses  at  the  Pavilion, 
and  for  twenty  at  the  Lake  House.  Mr.  George  L.  Lorillard's  stock 
farm  and  country  residence  are  about  three  miles  from  the  village  In 
close  proximity  is  the  South  Side  Sportsman's  Club,  an  association  of 
wealthy  New  Yorkers,  having  a  club-house  and  hunting  and  fishing 
grounds.  Near  by  is  the  country  residence  of  Wm.  K.  Vanderbilt,  an 
elegant  mansion  with  luxurious  surroundings,  and  every  luxury  that 
large  expenditure  can  procure.    The  next  sign-board  reads 

Oakdale. — Oakdale  is  a  little  woodland  place,  whose  year  is 

divided  into  the  months  without  an  R,  when 


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months  when  oysters  are  shipped  to  New  York.  St.  John's  Episcopal 
Church  here  was  built  ten  years  before  the  Revolutionary  War.  If  you 
board  here  it  will  be  likely  to  be  at  a  farm-house,  and  Long  Island 
farm-houses  are  proverbial  for  fine  beds  and  good  board.  The  bay  is 
within  sight.    Next  door,  on  the  railroad,  is 

Sayville,  perched  upon  high  ground,  with  no  meadow-land 

between  it  and  the  bay ;  a  smiling,  thriving 
little  place,  addicted  to  boat  building  and  to 
the  maintenance  of  an  oyster  fleet  of  one  hundred  sail.    The  ocean 


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surf  beats  upon  Flat  Beach,  four  miles  away.  Two  trout  streams — 
'Brown's"  and  "Green's"  by  name — flash  by  on  either  side  of  the 
village,  and  Mr.  R.  B.  Roosevelt,  the  President  of  the  Fish  Commis- 
sion, has  his  summer  home  and  private,  or,  should  we  say,  official 
trout  pond  here.  It  is  difficult  to  remember  to  remind  the  reader  of 
telegraph  and  postal  facilities,  but  they  have  them  here,  and  four 
churches  as  well.    The  brakeman's  next  call  is 


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Bayport,  familiar  to  many,  and  suggestive  to  all  who  learn  that 

I  it  was  long:  considered  part  of  Blue  Point, 

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,0  trains  daily.      4  tpains  Sunday,  i  home  of  the  finest  bivalves.     Nothing  is  lack- 


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ing  here.  The  hotel  and  boarding  houses  invite  all  who  will  come  ; 
cottage  residents  are  numerous,  and  their  places  are  often  exceedingly 
pretty.  Driving,  bathing,  boating,  dining  that  is  "worth  the  trouble" 
— as  one  might  say,  where  there  is  so  much  else  to  enjoy — and  trips  to 
Fire  Island  still  the  rule.  To  a  lover  of  marine  scenery  the  view  of 
the  Great  South  Bay  furnishes  never-ceasing  delight.  You  seem  to 
get  the  best  view  at  Bayport.  When  the  sun  is  rising,  hangs  high 
overhead,  or  is  setting,  or  when  the  moonlight  turns  its  ruffled 
surface  into  hammered  silver,  the  bay  is  ever  beautiful,  grand  and 
inspiring.    The  largest  place  upon  its  shores  is 

Patchog'Tie. — Many  thousands  have  mastered  that  hard-looking 

name,  for  it  is  the  permanent  abiding  place 
of  nearly  4,000  persons,  and  more  than 
half  that  number,  in  addition,  spend  the  summer  there.  It  has  the 
air  of  a  little  city  ;  its  streets  are  lighted  at  night,  and  its  stores  are 
numerous  and  sufficiently  well  stocked  to  attract  customers  from 
neighboring  towns.  It  is  a  port  of  entry,  and  from  its  yards  are 
launched  bigger  and  finer  boats  than  any  other  South-Side  builders 
put  together.  The  farmers  puzzle  little  children  by  telling  them  that, 
with  the  wind  and  the  moon  just  right,  it  is  possible  to  ' '  see  the 
corn  grow ; "  but  no  conditions  need  be  specified  for  one  who  would 
see  Patchogue  grow — that  is  to  say,  no  other  than  the  primary  con- 
dition of  good  and  sufficient  railroad  facilities.  In  the  ringing  blows 
of  the  trowels  and  hammers  of  the  builders  you  can  hear  Patchogue 
grow.  The  population  was  2,500  in  1881  ;  it  was  3,600  last  Janu- 
ary. There  used  to  be  two  hotels,  and  now  there  are  seven,  and  the 
largest  of  these  has  doubled  its  capacity  since  last  season.  New  Yorkers 
can  go  to  business  and  back  every  day.  It  is  not  an  expensive  place 
to  spend  a  summer  at.  If  nothing  has  been  said  about  the  beauty 
of  the  place  it  is  not  because  there  is  a  lack  of  beauty  here.  The 
avenues  are  well  graded,  lined  with  shade-trees,  and  set  with  charm- 
ing residences.  Ponds  and  streams,  yielding  trout,  perch,  bass  and 
other  fresh-water  fish,  diversify  and  adorn  the  scenery.     One  of  these, 


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Patchogue  Lake,  is  a  fine  body  of  water  four  miles  long.  Ocean 
Avenue  is  a  crowded  and  gay  thoroughfare  in  the  season,  and  those 
who  throng  its  walks  have  all  the  advantages  of  air  and  water,  food, 
sport  and  pastime  mentioned  among  the  concomitants  of  all  the  south 
shore  resorts. 
Opposite,  on  the 
ocean,  is  Water 
Island  Beach,  a 
pleasant  resort. 
The  Brooklyn 
Union,  in  de- 
scribing this  sec- 
tion, declared 
that  "In  all  the 
towns  on  Long 
Island  this  side  of 
Jamaica  people 
speak  in  high 
praise  of  the  im- 
proved accom- 
modation given 
them  by  the 
Long  Island 
Railroad,  both 
in  quality  and 
quantity,  under 

its  present  management.  The  road  and  the  cars  have  been  greatly 
improved,  better  time  is  made,  more  trains  are  run,  and  the  island 
is  being  vastly  benefited  thereby." 

Bellport   has  been  declared   by  an  English  lord   to  be  the 

prettiest  and  nicest  little  place  in  all  the 
world.  And  thereby  hangs  a  romantic  tale  : 
George  Essex  Montifex  Drummond,  heir  to  the  earldom  of  Perth, 
the  earldom  of  Montfort,  and  to  six  other  highly  profitable  titles,  fell 
in  love  with  his  grandmother  s  maid,  and,  rather  than  be  separated 
from  her  while  he  prepared  for  college,  married  her  and  ran  away  to 


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America,  though  nothing  more  than  an  impulsive,  open-hearted,  big 
stripling  of  fifteen  years.  That  was  in  1871.  Quite  poor,  and  almost 
entirely  dependent  on  his  own  exertions,  he  and  his  wife  came  to 
Bellport  in  1874,  and  here  remained  until  two  or  three  years  ago. 
The  roof  of  the  house  they  dwelt  in  ran,  in  the  old-fashioned  way, 
nearly  to  the  ground,  and  the  beauty  of  the  surroundings  was  that  of 
nature  unadorned — which  is  saying  a  great  deal,  for  this  is  a  very 
pretty  place — perched  upon  the  Great  South  Bay,  on  a  bluff  sixty  feet 
high,  with  an  entrancing  background  of  woods,  ponds,  well-tended 
drives,  and  summer  villas  in  pretty  parks.  His  lordship  fished  and 
hunted  for  a  living,  and  a  book  upon  the  subject  could  not  say 
more  for  the  sport  hereabouts  than  is  told  in  this  little  story  ;  for 
after  he  and  his  wife,  and  the  little  bov  that  was  born  to  them  in  the 
village,  had  taken  out  all  they  needed  he  sold  the  rest  of  his  game, 
and  his  rod  alone  brought  him  in  $500  a  year.  A  ride  on  the  old 
turnpike  reveals  the  great  taste  and  liberality  of  the  cottage  residents. 
Skillful  boatmen  are  numerous,  and  have  the  giant  bay  for  their  field, 
or  the  ocean  beach  four  miles  away.  Of  hotels,  there's  the  Bay  House, 
Goldthwaite  House,  Bell  House,  Raynor  House  and  Wyandotte 
House,  to  care  for  1,500  guests,  and  there  are  eight  pretty  cottages 
with  rooms  and  board  for  the  rest.    Next  en  route  is 

Brookhaven — A  chapter  ox  Game  and  Fishing.    An  over- 
particular   critic    suggests    that,    in  order 


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4  trains  daily.  2  trains  Sunday.  ]jq  mor q  accurate,  these  chapters  should 
be  reversed,  and  the  heir  to  two  earldoms  should  take  his  place 
in  Brookhaven  ;  but  as  there  is  geographically  no  difference  between 
that  place  and  Bellport,  and  as  the  chronicler  who  brought  the 
Long  Island  nobleman  to  public  notice  laid  his  scene  of  action 
in  Bellport,  its  next-door  neighbor  may  justly  claim  its  share  of  the 
compliments  paid  that  place,  while  this  chapter  is  devoted  to  game 
and  fishing.  The  fishing  district  maintains  the  highest  excellence 
all  the  way  from  South  Oyster  Bay  eastward,  and  for  hunting  one 
may  also  find  sport  upon  the  whole  territory  ;  though  beginning  west 
of  Babylon,  and  extending  all  the  way  eastward,  the  country  remains 
practically  fresh  and  unharmed  as  far  as  small  game  is  concerned. 
The  myriad  streams  that  take  their  source  at  the  backbone  of  the 


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is 

island,  and  flow  into  the  bays,  as  well  as  the 
ponds  they  pass  through,  contain  trout  famous 
for  gameness,  weight,  flavor  and  beauty.  Their 
rich  food,  and  the  fact  that  they  have  constant 
access  to  salt  water,  enhance  their  quality.  Other 
fresh-water  fish  are  even  more  abundant,  and  in 
the  salt  water  every  variety  known  to  the  latitude 
is  plentiful.  Lovers  of  this  sport  will  not  be  disap- 
pointed ;  the  waters  are  at  every  stopping  place,  and 
there  is  no  end  to  the  supply  of  fish.    As  for  the 


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shooting,  Great  South  Bay  abounds  in  geese,  brant,  canvas -back, 
broad-bills,  red-heads,  black-heads,  mallards,  and  other  ducks,  and 
along  the  beach  may  be  had  snipe,  tern  and  curlew,  while  back  in  the 
country  are  quail,  partridge,  and  grouse.  The  hunting  and  fishing 
territory  can  be  reached  from  New  York  in  an  hour. 

Forge  is  the  station  for  West  Moriches  and  Mastic,  and 

is  on  the  shore  of  East  Bay.  The  view 
from  the  Point  is  a  charming  one.  The 


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place  should  be  as  popular  as  Bellport,  for  it  has  similar  and  equal 
natural  advantages  and  beauties.  It  is  precisely  the  spot  in  which, 
as  Walt  Whitman  says,  to  ''loaf  and  invite  my  soul,"  which,  being 
translated,  probably  means  to  rest  and  forget  care.  There  are  no 
hotels  or  boarding  houses,  but  the  farmers  are  willing  to  entertain 
visitors,  and  they  will  be  found  to  know  how  to  play  the  part  of  host 
very  skilfully.  We  are  now  approaching  the  three  famous  Moriches 
villages — let  no  one  who  fears  fancy  prices  mistake  the  name  for  a  hint 
that  More  Riches  are  needed  for  stopping  here  than  elsewhere  in  this 
neighborhood  of  most  reasonable  charges.  The  More  Riches  suggested 
lie  in  the  wealth  of  soil,  the  rich  food  it  produces,  the  priceless  pure 
air  and  sparkling  spring  water,  and  the  unpurchasable  beauties  of  every 
prospect. 

Moriches  Station. — Moriches,  Centre  Moriches  and  East  Mor- 
iches lie  in  a  row,  mainly  upon  the  winding 
turnpike  close  to  the  water,  but  also,  to  some 


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extent,  along  the  charming  cross-roads  leading  to  the  bay,  of  which,  and 
of  the  ocean  beyond,  they  command  delightful  views.  Centre  Moriches 
is  the  middle  village,  and  the  station  is  close  to  the  centre  of  the  village. 
Stages  are  run  from  place  to  place  all  day.  The  bay  is  a  mile  from 
the  station,  but  East  Moriches  is  right  on  the  bay,  upon  a  breezy, 
elevated  plateau  overlooking  the  still  water  and  the  ocean,  across  the 
South  Beach  two  miles  away.  The  bay  attracts  the  most  attention,  even 
of  those  wrho  stop  at  Centre  Moriches.  Its  shore  is  prettily  broken  up 
into  little  coves,  and  just  here  its  waters  are  shallow  enough  to  render 
boating  by  children  more  than  ordinarily  safe.  A  pretty  custom  is  that 
of  sailing  over  to  South  Beach  for  a  surf  bath  ;  often  as  many  as  fifty 
craft  at  a  time  may  be  seen  spreading  their  sails  in  that  direction.  An 


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enterprising  resident  has  put  a  light-draft  steamboat  into  service  for  this 
season,  to  run  to  the  Cupssough  House,  a  new  caravansary  on  South 
Beach.  There  are  two  hotels  and  twelve  boarding  cottages  in  the 
centre  village.  Nine  of  the  cottages  are  close  to  the  bay  or  Senec's 
Creek,  a  stream  which  is  navigated  to  within  a  quarter  of  a  mile  of  the 
heart  of  the  village.  The  drives  are  smooth  and  hard,  and  the  sur- 
rounding country  is  picturesque  at  every  turn.  There  is  only  one  hotel 
at  East  Moriches,  but  there  is  room  for  300  in  neighboring  cottages. 
A  small  house  on  South  Beach  will  accommodate  twenty  of  the  mam- 


persons  who  enjoy  life  on  a  narrow  footing  of  earth,  water-bound  on 
either  side,  like  a  ship's  deck  not  very  greatly  magnified.  To  resume 
our  journey,  the  next  place  is 

Eastport. — Eastport  has  of  late  put  forward  just  claims  for 

summer  support.  The  village  is  about  the 
same  distance  from  East  Bay  as  Moriches, 


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and  has  the  same  advantages.  There  is  one  hotel,  the  Bayside  House, 
about  one  mile  from  the  bay.  Fronting  on  East  Bay,  and  ending  at 
the  edge  of  a  grove  of  fine  old  oaks,  is 


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Speonk. — Here,  again,  surf  and  still-water  bathing  are  con- 
venient and  excellent,  and  there  is  game 
and  fishing  and  sailing.    One  hotel,  the 


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Rossmore,  has  accommodation  for  about  sixty  guests.  There  are 
five  cottages,  with  room  for  a  hundred  guests,  about  a  mile  and  a  half 
from  the  depot.  The  church  is  Methodist.  Presently,  as  we  ride, 
the  island  will  be  found  split  in  two  by  Great  Peconic,  Little  Peconic, 
and  Gardiner's  Bays.  Its  appearance  here  is  familiar  even  to  school- 
boys—fish-shaped, anyway,  it  here  spreads  into  the  form  of  the  two 
flukes  of  a  dolphin's  tail.  On  the  south  fluke  we  shall  find  the 
Hamptons — famed  in  verse  and  story,  distinguished  by  the  homes 
of  noted  persons,  and  by  the  constant  visits  of  artists.    First  of 


all  is 


"Westhampton,  where  the  main-land  pushes  out,  and  the  ocean 

i 

beach  slants  in,  until  the  bay  is  squeezed  into 
a  thread  of  blue,  and  we  may  drive  or  wralk 


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over  to  the  restless  breakers.  The  ocean  is  about  a  mile  from  the 
picturesque  old  village.  An  air  of  long  establishment  is  noticeable 
here,  and  time  has  mellowed  the  general  aspect  of  the  village.  Here 
— beside  the  bathing  in  both  still  and  rough  water — the  driving,  the 
choice  edibles,  and  the  nourishing  air,  a  new  attraction,  that  of 
11  crabbing, "  may  be  enjoyed.  Crabs  are  a  staple  here,  but  those 
usual  companions  of  the  crab,  mosquitoes,  present  no  bills » for 
liquidation  in  blood,  for  they  do  not.  exist  here:  There  are  many 
large  and  fine  boarding  houses,  a  Methodist,  a  Roman  Catholic 
and  a  Presbyterian  church,  and  a  certainty  of  good  company.  The 
village  of 

Q,UOgTie,  a  mile  away,  is  beautiful  and  healthful  enough  to 

have  attracted  four  conspicuous  physicians 
to  make  their  summer  homes  there. 


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A  year  ago  last  spring,  four  literary  men  of  New  York  agreed 
to  go  to  Europe  together  in  the  summer.  They  had  got  the  idea  that 
it  was  their  solemn  duty  to  "do"  Brittany.  Before  they  started,  one 
known  as  "Sam,"  because  his  name  is  Ebenezer  and  Sam  is  shorter 
and  better,  was  taken  ill.  The  others  lost  sight  of  him  and  were 
disturbed,  but  presently  each  received  a  letter  bearing  the  outlandish 


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postmark  "Quogue,"  saying  that  he  was  getting  better.  Number 
Two,  called  "  Lengthwise,"  because  that  is  neater  than  calling  a  man 
Beanpole,  went  down  to  hurry  Sam  off  to  Europe.  In  a  week  he 
wrote  back  that  he  was  happy,  and  "P.  S.  Let  Brittany  go  hang." 
Number  Three,  not  called  anything,  because  he  gives  no  one  a 
chance  to  get  in  a  word  edgewise,  rushed  to  Quogue  in  anger,  but 
stopped  there,  and  wrote  three  letters  a  day  to  Number  Four  to  give 
up  Brittanv  and  come  down  to  Quogue.  Number  Four,  mad  as  a 
hornet,  went  to  Ballston  Spa.  The  three  at  Quogue  stayed  there  all 
summer,  and  are  going  again  this  season.  Anxious  to  know  what 
its  attractions  were  for  men  who  had  seen  nearly  all  the  world,  the 
writer  questioned  one  of  them.  "I  found  the  place  and  the  society 
delightful,"  said  he.  "  Quogue  presents  the  appearance  of  a  number 
of  large,  airy  and  pleasant  boarding  houses  on  a  high  bluff  .over- 
looking the  sea,  three-quarters  of  a  mile  away.  A  neck  or  point  (an 
intermission  in  the  line  of  bays)  leads  on  terra  fir  ma  to  the  sea,  and 
yet  there  are  safe,  land-locked  bays  for  sailing  also.  Pretty  streams 
seek  the  bays,  broad  and  handsome  roads  invite  exploration,  turf  and 
shade  and  woods  are  all  about.  The  prices  for  accommodations 
New  Yorkers  would  consider  reasonable.  It  is  my  opinion  that 
the  air  is  so  strengthening  that  if  a  man  or  woman  dies  there  it's 
his  or  her  own  fault."  From  Quogue  station  we  go  by  stage,  two 
miles,  to 

Atlanticville,  an  Arcadian  retreat  upon  the  verdure-clad  side 
of  an  inlet  navigable  for  sail-boats  from  Shinnecock  Bay.  The  houses 
are  close  to  the  bav  or  the  still  more  beautiful  creek,  and  the  dull  roar 
of  the  billows  on  South  Beach  is  plainly  within  hearing.  There  are 
good  accommodations  for  visitors  at  the  cottages,  and  prices  are  lower 
than  at  Quogue.  Onward  again,  we  pass  through  a  wild  but  beautiful 
country,  over  rolling  land  whose  heights  rise  gradually  to  the  dignity 
of  the  Shinnecock  Hills.    But  first  there  is  a  halt  at 

Good  Ground.^- At  little  Good  Ground  the  balsamic  odors  of 

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j  e  trains  DA.LY.  2  tra.ns  Sunday.  |  pnere,  and  woods  hem  in  the  prospect  on 
every  side.  The  "Sportsman's  Retreat"  and  some  comfortable 
boarding  cottages  offer  hospitality  here ;  and,  so  close  at  hand  as  to 


• 


.so 


be  included  in  the  visitor's  daily  programme,  is  lovely  Ponquogue, 
built  upon  a  promontory,  breezy  and  cool  in  the  hottest  weather, 
jutting  out  into  Shinnecock  Bay,  and  bearing  on  its  crest  the  famous 
Quogue  light-house.  Here  is  a  convenient  starting  point  for  expe- 
ditions with  rod  or  gun  or  boat. 
There  are  three  hotels  here.  "3*^^i 
Through  the  pines  and  among  the 
hills  by  rail  again,  we  pass  Canoe 
Place  and  the  Shinnecock  Hills — 
rich  to  raanv  in  recollections  of 
sport,  and  delightful  to  all  for  their 
peculiar  charms.  At  this  point  we 
see  the  ocean  ;  at  the  next  Peconic 
Bav  is  on  one  hand,  and  Shinne- 
cock  Bay  is  on  the  other,  both  at 
our  feet,  deep,  blue  and  calm,  and 
gleaming  in  the  sunlight.  Every- 
where around  us  the  land  is  broken 
up  into  rounded  elevations  coated 
with  low  vegetation.  The  Long 
Island  Improvement 
Company  have  purchas- 
ed all  this  prop- 
erty, and  next 
summer  may  see 
there  a  hand- 
some hotel  and 


cottages.  There 


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is  no  more  healthful  site  on  Long  Island  for  a  water-side  resort,  and 
no  section  within  the  same  distance  of  New  York,  and  as  easy  of 
access,  offers  such  a  charming  prospect  or  enjoys  such  refreshing  and 
invigorating  atmosphere.  The  Shinnecock  Reservation,  on  a  neck  of 
land  to  the  southeast,  is  a  more  level  bit  of  country.  The  Indians 
cultivate  the  soil  and  maintain  their  tribal  government,  but  they  are 
few  in  number  and  rather  black  than  red.  To-day  they  are  interesting 
only  because  of  their  grand  and  warlike  past.  Beyond,  in  a  smiling, 
agricultural  country,  is 

Southampton,  a  two-hundred-and-forty-year  old  town,  which 

Mr.  George  Putnam  Lathrop  declares  is 
' '  like  a  small  detachment  of  Newport  flung 


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down  on  the  shore  of  Long  Island."'  The  picturesque  old  village 
(full  of  quaint  old  houses,  and  lacking  not  even  an  old  windmill  to 
complete  its  ancient  and  romantic  beauty),  has  a  modern  annex  of 
new  cottages — a  summer  Southampton  closer  to  the  beach.  Here  is 
to  be  found  a  fashionable  and  distinguished  community.  In  the  old 
town  a  tourist  of  last  year  quoted  good  board  at  from  $7  to  $14  a 
week.  The  village  has  a  pond  of  its  own  in  its  precincts,  and  cut  off 
from  the  sea  by  a  strip  of  sand.  Here  boating  is  enjoyed.  The 
bathing  is  had  in  the  surf,  under  the  guardianship  of  a  bathing- 
master  and  a  complete  system  of  safeguards.  There  is  nothing  to 
check  the  ocean  breezes,  and  the  air  is  ever  fresh  and  strengthening. 
From  the  sandhills  on  the  far-stretching  beach  magnificent  sea-views 
are  had,  as  well  as  vistas  over  a  most  entrancing  country  to  the 
northward  and  toward 

Water  Mills,  a  purely  country  retreat  of  woodland,  stream, 

lake  and  field,  with  good  board  in  substan- 
tial and  cosey  farmhouses — a  choice  place  for 


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aquatic  and  piscatorial  sport  and  cottage  life.  Three  miles  farther 
on,  is 

Bridgehampton,  another  member  of  the  royal  family  of  east- 
end  resorts  ;  a  twin-brother  to  Southampton 
as  far  as  the  range  of  pastimes  is  concerned, 
but  somewhat  smaller  and  less  stirred  by  new  blood.  There  is  a 
fine  library  here,  a  Methodist  and  a  Presbyterian  church,  and  no  lack 


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of  accommodation  for  the  many  to  whom  the  mention  that  "it  is 
one  of  the  Hamptons  "  is  sufficient  praise.  Another  of  them  is 
reached  by  stage. 

Easth.am.pton. — Out  of  the  rush  of  travel,  and  hiding  its 
many  charms  and  historic  reminiscences  at  arm's  length  from  the 
modern  road  of  iron,  and  rendered  exclusive  to  its  more  steadfast 
admirers  by  the  six-mile  stage- 
ride.  To  anticipate  one  of  the 
glories  of  this  quaint  old  place, 
imagine  a  main  street  four 
times  the  width  of  Broadway, 
green  as  a  lawn  with  heavy 
turf,  and  fringed  with  stately,  tapering  poplars.  Behind  the  trees 
imagine  dwellings  of  ancient  designs,  tapestried  with  lichens,  and 
softened  in  outlines  by  the  mellowing  influences  of  time.  This,  and 
three  genuine  Holland  windmills,  that  swing  gaunt  arms  against  the 
sky,  and  a  great  expanse  of  rich  lawn  reaching  toward  a  sandy  beach 
by  the  sounding  sea,  constitute  East  Hampton,  where  John  Howard 
Payne  once  lived  (the  house  is  yet  standing)  ;  where  Major  Andre, 

command- 
ing part  of 
the  red-coat 
forces,  made 
his  head- 
quarters, and 
near  which 
James  Feni- 
more  Cooper 
laid  the 


opening 

scene  in  "The  Sea  Lions."  The  Rev.  T.  DeWitt  Talmage  has  his 
summer  home  near  here.  Two  miles  farther  east,  and  directly  on  the 
beach,  is 

Amagansett,  the  last  village  on  the  eastern  end  of  the  island 
— a  small,  but  nevertheless  most  charming   and   interesting  place. 
The  Montauk  reservation  is  also  a  point  of  considerable  interest.  To 


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return  to  the  railroad  and  resume  the  tour  is  a  light  task.  The 
Montauk  Division  has  its  eastern  terminus  at  the  next  stopping 
place, 

Sag  Harbor. — The  little  old  seaport  has  passed  through  strange 
„  1    vicissitudes,   and  each  change  has  left  its 

101  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN.  '  O 

6  trains  daily.      2  trains  Sunday.     traces.    It  has  ever  been  the  market-town  for 


the  Hamptons,  and  on  market-days  the  streets  are  as  full  of  bustling 


folk  as  those  of  a  metrop- 
olis should  be.  The 
glory  of  wide  maritime 
connections  has  long  since 
vanished  from  the  place, 
and  its  fame  as  a  whaling 
port  is  a  matter  for  mem- 
ory only ;  but  the  beau- 
tiful harbor  remains  to  delight  the  eye  and  to  provide  continual  pleas- 
ure, and  the  wharfs  and  yards  and  other  relics  of  past  importance 
enhance  the  pictures  presented  at  every  point  of  view.    In  the  village 


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are  brick  houses  and  streets  both  paved  and  lighted  ;  to  say  nothing  of 
good  hotels,  cosey  boarding  houses,  fine  private  residences  and  most 
delightful  drives.  There  are  five  churches  and  a  convent  here.  Manu- 
factures now  find  a  place  in  the  changing  record  of  the  town. 
Morocco  leather  is  made  there,  and  so  are  watch-cases,  flour,  pottery, 
cotton  and  other  commodities.  Shelter  Island  is  close  enough  to 
somewhat  overshadow  the  village  in  the  view  of  summer  visitors,  but 
Sag  Harbor  has  manifold  charms  of  its  own,  nevertheless. 

Fort  Pond  Bay. — The  first  inroad  made  by  the  sea  into  the 
land  behind  Montauk  Point  is  Fort  Pond.  Bay,  the  American  terminus 
of  the  projected  swift  line  of  steamships  to  Milford  Haven,  an  equally 
advantageous  port  in  England.  It  is  shaped  like  a  broad  horseshoe, 
with  high,  cliff-like  banks,  and  opens  into  the  sheltered  waters  of 
Block  Island  Sound.  It  is  a  far  better  harbor  than  New  York,  being 
equally  sheltered  and  with  a  wide  entrance,  and  having  fifty-four  feet 
of  water  at  its  mouth  and  forty-eight  feet  at  the  edge  of  the  natural 
wharf-line.  The  extension  of  the  railroad  to  this  bay  would  be 
comparatively  inexpensive,  and  trans-Atlantic  voyagers  would  start  or 
land  108  miles  nearer  New  York,  making  the  distance  in  elegant 
cars  and  at  a  swift  rate  of  speed,  while  the  steamers  would  not  be 
bound  by  the  tides  as  at  New  York,  but  could  enter  or  quit  the  bay 
on  schedule  time,  and  make  the  trip  across  in  five  days'  time  or 
less. 

MONTAUK  POINT, 

At  the  end  of  the  coast,  repays  its  visitors  for  all  their  trouble  in 
getting  to  it.  It  is  a  bold  head-land,  almost  as  much  at  sea  as  any 
ship.  It  is  unlike  any  other  part  of  the  island,  and  possesses  pictur- 
esqueness  to  a  greater  degree  than  any  other  point  on  the  Atlantic 
coast.  From  the  sea  it  appears  as  a  rugged,  precipitous,  lofty  cliff, 
surmounted  by  the  famous  lighthouse  which  shares  its  name  ;  but  the 
visitor  finds  it  a  vast  pasturage  of  rolling,  graceful  hills  clothed  with 
rich  grass,  cool,  airy  and  delightful  even  in  the  dog-days.  Yachting 
parties  of  venturesome  New  England  folk  have  long  been  accus- 
tomed to  camp  out  in  these  downs,  there  to  hunt  or  fish,  to  loaf  and 
to  watch  the  ships  passing  to  and  from  New  York.    Great  gray 


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boulders  and  gleaming  ponds  diversify  the  scene,  and  though  there 
is  a  sloping  sandy  beach  on  the  bayside,  abrupt  cliffs  receive  the 
ceaseless  hammering  of  the  ocean's  breakers.  An  association  of  New 
Yorkers,  whose  offices  are  not  far  from  Delmonico's  Broadway  House, 
have  lately  started  a  little  settlement  near  the  Point,  and  are  them- 
selves, with  their  families,  the  pioneer  dwellers  in  this  modern  village 
by  the  sea.  At  two  or  three  houses  on  the  Point  accommodation  for 
visitors  may  be  found. 


"i've  been  berrying." 


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THE  NORTH  SHORE  BRANXHES. 


ALONG  THE  SOUND. 


E  quitted  the  main  line  at  Jamaica  to  make  the  trip  along  the 
Montauk  Division  on  the  South  Shore,  but  the  charming  North 
Shore  is  traversed  by  branches  from  two  points.  At  Mineola,  on  the 
main  line,  we  take  the  cars  for  the  Glen  Cove  Branch,  and  Hicksville, 
6j4,  miles  farther  on,  is  the  junction  for  the  lovely  bays  along  the 
Port  Jefferson  Branch.  The  Flushing,  or  North  Side  Division,  is 
separate,  with  its  metropolitan  terminus  in  Long  Island  City. 

BEAUTIES    OF    THE    NORTH  SHORE 

If  the  people  of  the  north  side  may  be  said  to  complain  at  all,  it 
is  only  because  they  have  not  been  able  to  share  the  pleasures  of 
their  existence  with  a  just  proportion  of  the  strangers  who  make  Long 
Island  a  summer  resort.  They  feel  neglected,  and  declare  that  not 
a  tenth  part  that  can  and  should  be  said  has  been  made  public  about 
their  blue  bays,  silver  ponds  and  smiling  fields  and  villages.  This  is 
true,  and  the  reason  is  plain.  The  south  side  began  to  attract  atten- 
tion when  pastoral  scenes  and  bay-side  ports  were  plenty,  even  on 
Manhattan  Island,  and  the  people  of  the  city  sought  the  more  rare 
pleasure  of  the  sea-sands.  So  Coney  Island  was  first  established  as  a 
vacation  point,  and,  travel  being  turned  that  way,  place  after  place 
along  the  ocean  beach  was  opened  up.  It  was  natural,  and  there 
was  no  help  for  it.  But  the  time  has  come  when  thousands,  having 
had  their  surfeit  of  the  sea,  add  their  numbers  to  the  other  thousands 
in  the  now  vast  population  who  yearn  for  the  quieter  and  more 
varied  charms  of  summer  woods  and  placid  bays  in  quiet  country 
nooks.  All  this,  and  more,  the  North  Shore  holds  in  trust  for  even- 
one  who  would  draw  upon  it.  The  passenger  upon  the  railroad  sees 
only  the  pastoral  back  country  ;  the  chief  and  varied  charms  lie  along 
the  Sound,  a  mile  or  so  to  the  north,  for  so  strangely  is  the  coast 


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line  broken  up  by  rounded  bays,  bold  promontories  and  harbors 
joined  to  harbors,  that  access  from  one  settlement  to  another  must 
necessarily  be  had  beyond  the  innermost  of  these  waters.  Stages 
meet  every  train,  and  to  him  who  has  thought  he  knew  Long 
Island  from  intimate  acquaintance  with  the  south  shore,  almost  every 
hundred  rods  along  any  road  from  the  cars  to  the  water-side  will 
reveal  a  delicious  series  of  surprises.  Here  is  a  close  succession  of 
old  towns,  each  at  the  head  of  its  own  bay  and  possessed  of  its 
own  verdure-environed  ponds  and  grassy-banked  streams.  Yet  no 
two  at  all  alike.  Here  are  thriving  industries — ship  building,  sail 
making,  flour  making  and  manufacturing  generally.  Land  and 
water  yield  riches  alike,  and  the  stranger,  who  sees  at  a  glance  that 
the  community  is  not  dependent  on  his  coming  for  its  prosperity, 
likes  each  place  the  better  for  its  independence.  Here  long  estab- 
lishment and  continued  prosperity  have  formed  in  each  place  a 
society  delightful  for  its  dignity,  intelligence  and  hospitality.  The 
water  is  here  in  land-locked,  lake-like  bays,  or,  just  beyond,  in  the 
deep,  blue  Sound.  Wild  birds  are  in  the  air,  small  game  is  on  the 
land,  sea  fish  or  brook  fish  are  plenty,  bathing  and  boating  are 
convenient  at  the  ponds,  the  bays  or  the  Sound  itself;  and  added 
to  all  these  pleasures,  common  to  both  sides  of  the  island,  are  the 
matchless  beauties  of  the  north  shore  scenery  and  the  unrivalled 
drives,  the  equally  wholesome  and  cool  air  and  the  milder  charms 
of  a  vast  and  opulent  farming  territory. 

First  among  these  branches,  as  they  succeed  one  another  in 
their  natural  order  along  the  railroad,  is  The  Flushing  Branch. 
The  first  stopping  place  is 

Woodside,  back   of  Ravenswood   and  Astoria,   but  prettier 

than  either  of  those  suburbs— a  pleasing 
combination    of    woodland,  farms,  villas, 
parks,  lawns  and  village  roads  ;    already  the  seat  of  many  suburban 
homes  and  offering  sites  for  hundreds  more.    Side  by  side  with  it  is 
Winfield,  only  a  mile  away,  and,  like  its  neighbor,  set  upon 

high  ground.      Here  are  some  blocks  of 
dwellings  that  would  be  compact  but  for 
the  intervening  gardens.     Here,  too,  manufactures,  of  a  sort  that 


3  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

38  TRAINS  DAILY.  28  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


4  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

88  TRAINS  DAILY.  29  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


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benefit  the  place  and  are  in  nowise  objectionable  to  those  in  the 
neighborhood  of  the  establishments,  are  already  under  way. 
Shoulder  to  shoulder  with  Winfield  is  the  famous  old  gardening 
and  farming  village  of 

Newtown,  years  ago  known  to  New  Yorkers  as  a  picnic 

and  day  resort,  or  as  a  name  seen  on 
countless  market  wagons.    Now,  while  the 


5  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

38  TRAINS  DAILY.  28  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


country  has  lost  nothing  in  beauty  or  fertility,  a  suburban  settle- 
ment has  sprung  up  here.  In  the  old  parts  of  the  village  fine 
estates  and  substantial  mansions  line  the  broad  ways,  cooled  by 
umbrageous  trees.  In  the  new  part  are  seen  clusters  of  mansard 
cottages.  Parts  of  New  York  are  not  so  near  the  City  Hall  as 
Newtown  is,  and  no  part  of  New  York  is  anything  like  so  salu- 
brious.   Next  is 

Corona,  a   modern    suburb   displaying  evidences   of  taste, 

comfort  and  a  lively  public  spirit  in  its 
well   kept   streets,  fine   houses  and  neat 


6  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

38  TRAINS  DAILY.  28  TRAINS  SUNDAY 


yards  and  lawns — a  pretty  village  containing,  in  its  centre,  a  little 
lake  surrounded  by  an  attractive  public  park.  It  is  one  of  the 
prettiest  of  the  places  that  are  aptly  called  "the  sleeping  rooms 
of  New  York."    More  like  a  parlor  than  a  bedroom  is 

Flushing"  ;   nowhere  else  within  easy  reach  of  New  York  is 

there  any  such  admirable  combination  of 
country   attractions    and    city  advantages. 


8  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

35  TRAINS  DAILY.  27    TRAINS  SUNDAY 


Here  are  broad  avenues,  as  trim  and  neat  as  a  Holland  kitchen, 
framed  in  flowers  and  verdure  and  redolent  of  the  country,  yet 
appointed  with  the  gas  and  water  mains,  the  sewerage  system  and 
the  pavements  of  a  complete  city.  Here  are  sweet  air,  fresh  pro- 
duce, the  protection  of  a  police  and  fire  department,  the  society  of 
an  old  and  highly  intelligent  community,  all  within  half  an  hour 
of  New  York  by  very  frequent  trains  ;  and  to  be  had  at  much  less 
cost  for  land  or  rent  and  food  than  in  New  York.  Flushing  wears 
a  lively  air  of  business,  also.  It  has  numerous  well  stocked  stores, 
hotels,  two  newspapers,  a  savings  bank,  a  bank  of  deposit  and 
such  educational  establishments  as  St.  Joseph's  Academy,  Fairchild's 
Institute,  a  young  ladies'  seminary,  St.  Michael's,  the  High  School, 


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etc.  As  seen  nestling  upon  a  hill-side,  from  the  water,  it  is  rather 
like  a  park  than  a  city.  It  was  not  laid  out  in  a  night  and  built 
up  in  ten  years  on  the  plan  of  a  checker  board,  as  were  some 


cheerless  suburbs,  the  J^/jUSh^m 
property  o  f  shrewd 
land  speculators.  It  was  a 
village  in  the  time  of  the 
Revolution.  It  grew  slowly 
until  the  railroad  sought  it 
out ;  and  from  its  beginning 
as  a  growing  town  it  has 
ever  shown  a  quick  and 
shrewd  public  spirit,  directed  by  taste  and  aiming  to  keep  the  town 
beautiful,  wholesome  and  comfortable.  There  are  some  very  famous 
nurseries  here,  and  the  mineral  springs  of  the  neighborhood  are 
greatly  frequented  because  of  their  reputed  medicinal  properties. 
The  next  place,  equally  advantageous  as  a  site  for  homes  for  New 
Yorkers,  but  with  a  more  mixed  population,  is 


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College  Point. — It  is  finely  situated,  with  the  East  River  on 

one  side  and  Flushing  Bav  on  the  other. 


10  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 


37  trains  daily.       trains  sunday.     These  give  it   four  miles  of  water  front. 


Along  this  are  some  of  the  handsome  residences  of  the  wealthier 
people.  As  a  manufacturing  village  it  stands  first  on  Long  Island,  and 
its  cheap  building  sites,  excellent  atmosphere,  sewer,  water  and  gas 
systems,  flagged  streets  and  fire  apparatus,  conjointly  with  its  closeness 
to  the  city,  are  building  it  up  with  a  fine  population.  Its  greatest 
benefactor,  Conrad  Poppenhusen,  Esq.,  made  a  gift  to  the  town  of 
the  excellent  and  well  endowed  institute  which  bears  his  name.  It 
is  a  free  school  in  all  branches  of  art  and  science,  and  embraces  a 
library,  kindergarten,  evening  classes,  reading  room  and  sewing 
school.  There  are  two  other  noted  schools  and  a  number  of 
private  ones.  Here,  too,  is  a  savings  bank,  and  many  of  the 
pleasures  and  pastimes  of  water-side  and  rural  life  are  obtainable 
here.  The  surrounding  country  is  beautiful,  and  there  are  several 
good  hotels  and  a  newspaper.  On  the  same  point,  only  two  miles 
distant,  is 

Whitestone,  older  than  College  Point,  and  once  a  popular 

summer  resort,  it  is  also  fortunate  in  the  pos- 
session of  a  great  water  front,  skirting  which 
are  some  handsome  villas,  the  residences  of  men  well  known  in 
the  city.  Here  are  fine  building  sites,  a  pure  atmosphere  and 
opportunities  for  blending  city  and  country  life  within  a  shorter  dis- 
tance, in  time,  from  New  York  than  many  more  populous  and  less 
advantageous  places.  The  famous  fort  and  garrison  at  Willett's 
Point  are  on  a  high  bluff  commanding  the  water,  at  the  end  of  a 
charming  drive  from  Whitestone.  During  fine  summer  afternoons 
the  military  band's  splendid  performances  are  listened  to  and  enjoyed 
by  hundreds  of  promenaders.  Returning  to  Flushing,  we  follow  the 
railroad  to 

Broadway,  a  roomy  and  handsome  part  of  Flushing.  The 

wide  macadamized  road,  with  its  quadru- 
ple line  of  shade  trees — some  of  which 
are  a  century  old — leads  into  the  heart  of  the  pretty  city.  Here, 
as  well  as  in  the  older  parts  of  the  town,  are  the  handsome  homes 


11  MILES  from  long  island  city. 

44  TRAINS  DAILY.  27  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


9  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

18  TRAINS  DAILY.  10  TRAINS  SUNDAY 


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and  summer  places  of  more  rich  and  well  known  New  Yorkers 
than  there  is  room  to  mention  here.    Close  by  is 

Bayside,  on  the   shore   of  Little   Neck  Bay.  Crocheron's 

Bayside  House  —  a  weil  known  ''clam- 
bake"— has  always  been  a  popular  resort, 


11  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

18  TRAINS  DAILY.  10  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


and  the  list  of  New  Yorkers  who  have  enjoyed  clam -bakes 
there  is  as  long  as  the  roll  of  colonels  in  the  Southern  States. 
The  bay  is  very  pretty — a  wedge  of  blue  water  between  high  hills 
fringed  with  groves  and  adorned  with  fine  residences.  Here  are 
cool  air,  fine  bathing,  good  fishing,  boating,  sailing  or  perfect  rest. 
The  place  is  so  close  to  the  city  that  the  drive  to  it  has  always 
been  popular.    Opposite  is 

Douglaston,  also  on  Little  Neck  Bay,  in  a  famous  farming 

country  and  on  the  brow  of  a  graceful  hill 
reaching  up  from  the  placid  bay — a  pretty 


12  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

17  TRAINS  DAILY.  10  TRAINS  SUNDAY 


aggregation  of  cottages,  lawns  and  gardens,  and  the  summer  resting 
place  or  permanent  home  of  many  New  Yorkers.  On  the  plateau 
on  top  of  this  promontory  is 

Little  Neck,  not  a  village,  in  the  strict  sense  of  the  word,  but 

the  seat  of  many  fine  residences  sprinkled 
among  substantial  farm-houses,  on  a  breezy 


13  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 

18  TRAINS  DAILY.  10  TRAINS  SUNDAY 


hill  overlooking  Little  Neck  Bay  and  that  part  of  the  East  River 
where  it  begins  to  widen  into  the  Sound.  The  whole  country- 
side looks  prosperous.  The  hard  clay  roads,  hedged  by  noble  old 
trees,  wind  along  close  to  the  bluff  or  across  the  Neck,  ever  invit- 
ing the  tourist  onward,  and  as  constantly  disclosing  exquisite  sites 
for  the  dwellings  of  men,  who  may  reach  the  city  comfortably  each 
morning,  transact  a  day's  business  and  return  in  the  evening. 
The  famous  Little  Neck  clams  are  raked  up  in  these  waters. 
They  have  been  immortalized  in  verse  by  Bloodgood  H.  Cutter, 
Esq.,  the  poet-farmer,  whose  great  estate  and  quaint  old  home  are 
here,  in  a  poem  entitled  "Lines  on  Occasion  of  an  Indian  Clam- 
Bake."  As  he  is  an  authority  as  well  as  a  poet,  we  quote  a  few 
couplets  and  stanzas  : 

I  think  the  clam  did  have  its  birth 
At  the  creation  of  the  earth. 


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But  if  you  swallow  a  clam  whole, 
It  will  digestion  so  control 
That  ofttimes  makes  some  people  sick, 
And  compels  them  to  take  physic. 

But  take  the  clams  right  out  their  shell, 
Season  and  butter  them  quite  well  ; 
Then  these  nice  clams  done  up  so  brown 
Will  taste  so  sweet  and  slip  right  down. 

Here,  and  on 

Great  Neck,  one  is  constantly  reminded  of  the  Connecticut 

shore.     The  marked  characteristics  of  the 


14  MILES  FROM  LONG  ISLAND  CITY. 


18  TRAINS  DAILY.  10  TRAINS  SUNDAY.    |  QJQ     Qjg      Same,      althOUgh      elsewhere  On 


Long  Island  these  features  are  missing.  Great  Neck  is  a  blos- 
soming highland,  two-thirds  surrounded  by  water.  It  is  a  veritable 
garden  spot,  rich  in  its  soil  and  distinguished  by  its  excellent  roads, 
noble  trees,  charming  water  views,  salubrious  air  and  positively 
unexampled  sites  for  fine  residences.  From  the  higher  points  on 
the  undulating  surface  one  can  count  twenty  spires  in  New  York 
and  Brooklyn,  and  plainly  see  the  Palisades  of  the  Hudson.  Its 
already  numerous  mansions,  each  set  in  a  beautiful  park,  contain 
a  distinguished  as  well  as  a  wealthy  summer  community.  Here 
are  the  summer  homes  of  ex-Mayor  Grace,  Michael  P.  Grace,  James 
E.  Ward,  Joseph  Spinney,  Edward  Morgan,  J.  H.  Birkbeck,  J.  M. 
Sneden,  John  A.  King  and  very  many  more.  Here,  too,  are  farms 
which,  to  the  unprofessional  eye,  appear  to  be  models.  The  farm- 
houses are  often  elegant  mansions,  and  the  out-buildings  testify 
to  the  taste  and  prosperity  of  their  owners.  Many  of  the  finer 
summer  residences  are  near  the  bluff  overlooking  the  dimpled  blue 
bays  or  the  island-dotted  river,  busy  with  Sound  craft.  There  is 
fine  boating  and  bathing,  fruit  is  luscious  and  plenty  and  the  gar- 
dens form  a  wonderful  midsummer  exhibition.  Here  this  branch 
of  the  railroad  terminates.  Reached  by  stage  from  Great  Neck  is 
Manhasset,  a  pretty  water-side  retreat,  hemmed  in  between 
the  bay  and  a  great  grove  ;  containing  pleasant  cottages  and  abound- 
ing in  woodland  drives  and  walks  on  the  breezy  hills  or  in  the 
shaded  valleys.  Here  boating,  bathing  and  fishing  are  convenient 
and  excellent.  Board  may  be  had  in  many  farm-houses.  At  Min- 
eola,  nineteen  miles  from  Long  Island  City  or  Brooklyn, 


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THE  GLEN  COVE  BRANCH. 

Diverges  from  the  Main  Line.  The  first  station  ultilized  by  the 
inhabitants  of  a  wide  track  of  fertile  iarming  land  is 

Williston. — Brick   making  is   carried   on  extensively  here. 

The  next  station  is  close  to  the  water-side, 
and  is  famed  as  having  been  for  years  the 


20  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 
10  TRAINS  DAILY.  4  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


home  of  William  Cullen  Bryant. 

Roslyn  is  by  many  persons  declared  to  be  the  most  beautiful 

spot  on  Long  Island,  and  it  is,  indeed, 
most  prepossessing.    It  is  at  the  head  of 


23  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN 
14  TRAINS  DAILY.  4  TRAINS  SUNDAY 


Hempstead  Harbor,  surrounded  on  three  sides  by  hills.  The  view 
from  an  eminence  down  upon  the  placid  waters,  the  little  hamlet 
bent  around  its  curving  shore,  with  the  deep,  unbroken  green  of  the 
high  hills  in  the  background,  is  a  scene  tranquil  and  beautiful 
beyond  expression.  One  of  the  elevations  that  form  this  background 
of  forest  shade  is  the  highest  land  on  Long  Island.  It  is  called 
Harbor  Hill,  and  the  tower  that  surmounts  it  is  an  observatory  from 
which  one  is  able  to  see  the  Sound,  the  opposite  shore,  the  sea, 
New  York  and  a  great  part  of  Long  Island.  The  late  Mr.  Bryant's 
picturesque  drab  cottage  and  beautiful  grounds  are  objects  of  great 
interest  to  strangers.  Other  fine  estates  are  those  of  Mr.  Parke 
Godwin,  Thomas  Clapham,  the  Hon.  Stephen  Tabor  and  Gen. 
Ward.  Roslyn  has  a  silk  factory,  paper  mills,  flouring  mills  and  a 
moulding  mill.  There  is  a  local  story  to  the  effect  that  Washington 
made  a  sheet  of  paper  in  one  of  the  paper  mills.  If  he  were  there 
to-day  he  would  find  boating  and  bathing  more  agreeable  pastimes ; 
and  if  he  had  the  fondness  for  fishing  that  the  present  Chief 
Magistrate  has,  he  could  get  fine  trout  in  the  lake,  perch  in  the 
ponds,  and  many  varieties  of  fish  in  the  harbor. 

Greenvale,  a  growing  place ;  wholesome,  cool  and  pretty, 
and  in  the  heart  of  a  rich  and  beautiful  farming  section.  Toward 
the  harbor  is 

Glen  Head,  another  quiet  place  destined  to  contain  the  sum- 
mer homes  of  many  wealthy  New  Yorkers, 
when  its  beauty,  salubrity  and  accessibility 


26  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 
14  TRAINS  DAILY.  4  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


attract  attention.    Farther  on  is  the  lovely  village  of 


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Sea  Cliff. — The  uppermost  houses  crown  the  high  bluff  over- 
looking the  beautiful  harbor.    The  ground 


27  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 

14  trains  daily.  4  trains  Sunday.  |  rjses  abruptly  from  the  bay-shore,  and  the 
cottages  clustered  upon  it  rise  tier  above  tier,  until  the  plateau  on  top 
is  reached.      Established  solely  for  a  camp-meeting  ground,  it  has 


become  a  lively  summer  resort  as  well,  with  a  perma- 
nent village  population.  It  has  water-works,  and  a  few 
such  enterprising  citizens  that  the  roads  are  kept  in  excellent 
order,  and  improvements  are  made  as  fast  as  the  growth  of 
the  place  will  warrant.  The  air  is  sweet  and  bracing  ;  the 
views  are  grand  in  some  directions,  and  exquisitely  beautiful 
in  others.  Here  may  be  enjoyed  boating,  bathing  and  fish- 
ing— in  fact,  one  must  get  all  the  enjoyment  possible  from  the 
water,  for  alcoholic  beverages  are  rigidly  excluded.  New 
cottages  are  building  constantly,  and  the  hotel  and  boarding 
house  accommodations  are  admirable.  Among  the  conspicu- 
ous residents  are  Senator  Boyd,  John  T.  Pirie,  the  wealthy  Chicagoan, 
Mrs.  Dr.  Lozier,  E.  C.  Coe  of  the  Equitable  Life  Insurance  Company. 


If 5 

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28  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  BROOKLYN. 
14  TRAINS  DAILY.  4  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


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L.  A.  Battershall  and  others.  Mr.  F.  W.  Geisenhainer,  the  superin- 
tendent, who  is  a  retired  New  York  lawyer  of  wealth,  has  a  superb 
residence  there.    The  next  station  is 

Glen  Cove. — The  high  rank  held  by  Glen  Cove  among  what 

we  may  hastily  call  the  noted  beauty-spots  of 
the  land  is  no  where  disputed.  Whatever 
charm  could  be  missing  from  a  place  so  happily  situated  has  been 
supplied  in  the  improvements  and  adornments  by  an  old-established 
community  of  wealthy,  tasteful  and  public-spirited  residents.  The 
view  from  it  over  the  blue  harbor  and  upon  the  shimmering  waters  of 
the  Sound  is  most  attractive,  and  there  is  hardlv  a  drive  that  does  not 
reveal  a  constant  succession  of  picturesque  landscapes  or  water  scenes. 
The  village  is  a  busy  place,  reached  by  boat  or  rail,  and  contains  a 
number  of  factories  besides  the  famous  starch  works.  It  has  three 
hotels,  many  boarding  houses,  two  newspapers  and  four  churches. 
Many  residences  of  famous  men  are  in  or  near  the  limits  of  the  place. 
The  Hon.  Charles  A.  Dana,  the  editor  of  the  Sun,  has  a  noted  park 
and  residence  on  Dosoris  Island  ;  Townsend  Cox,  Esq.,  is  a  neighbor 
of  his,  and  so  is  the  Hon.  S.  L.  M>  Barlow.  Other  wealthy  residents 
are  Charles  E.  Appleby,  Edward  T.  Weeks,  Charles  L.  Perkins  and 
Messrs.  John  and  Wright  Duryea.  Here  are  to  be  enjoyed  shooting, 
fishing,  bathing  and  boating.  The  terminus  of  this  busy  branch  is  at 
Locust  Valley. — It  is  prettily  situated  in  a  rich  and  delightful 

farming  country.  Through  shady  dells,  by 
leaf-encircled  ponds,  and  along  the  shores  of 
the  Sound  and  bay,  the  excellent  roads  of  the  neighborhood  lead  the 
tourist.  There  is  fishing  and  gunning,  and  there  are  churches  and 
two  schools.  For  those  who  wish  a  tranquil  resting  place  no  village 
on  the  island  is  more  attractive. 

THE  PORT  JEFFERSON  BRANCH. 

This  branch  diverges  from  the  main  line  at  Hicksville,  reached 
equally  well  from  Long  Island  City  or  Brooklyn.    The  first  station  is 
Syosset — an  emerald  by  the  roadside.     Here  are  grown  some 
 „„„„„,  VM  I    of  the  finest  products  of  the  soil  that  are 

29  MILES  FROM  NEW  YORK  OR  EROOKLYN.    :  F 

a  trains  daily.      4  trains  Sunday.  I    gent  tQ  jjew  York,  so  that,  beside  rest  and 


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14  TRAINS  DAILY.  4  TRAINS  SUNDAY. 


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contact  with  Nature  in  her  richest  garb,  excellent  table-fare  may 
be  relied  upon.  The  stages  that  are  met  at  the  depot  are  for  Oyster 
Bay  and  Cold   Spring  Harbor.     These  places  are  both  about  four 


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miles  from  the  rail- 
road, and  the  jour- 
ney  to  them  is 
through  a  charm- 
ing country  made 
up  of  hills,  vales 
and  streams,  in  a 
long-settled  region 
of  substantial 
The  tonic  of  the 
air  makes  itself  felt  and  the 
drive  provokes  the  appetite. 
All  the  praises  of  the  North  Shore  are  realized  at  these  resorts.  Here 
are  the  crystal  waters,  the  high  tree-and-grass-clad  shores,  the  water- 
side drives,  the  mills  so  prettily  situated  that  every  artist  who  sees 


homes. 


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them  is  sure  to  take  their  pictures  ;  the  myriad  boats  and  all  the 
interminable  list  of  delights.  Hotels  there  are,  of  course,  and  board- 
ing houses,  churches  and  the  rest.    You  go  by  stage  to 

Oyster  Bay. — The  attraction  is  the  beautiful  bay,  a  hill- 
sheltered  inner  basin  opening  into  Cold  Spring  Harbor.  It  is  a 
yachtsman's  head-quarters,  and  sailing  and  rowing  races  are  fre- 
quent. Summer  visitors,  catching  the  infection,  spend  much  time 
on  the  water,  going  to  picnics  and  clambakes  on  the  necks  and 
islands  of  the  Sound  shore,  or  in  the  season  enjoying  the  wild-fowl 
shooting,  which  is  plenty  and  close  at  hand.  There  are  sandy 
beaches  for  bathers,  and  as  for  driving,  the  roads  lead  over  fine 
drives,  past  many  notable  residences,  and  through  rich  and  beautiful 
farm  land,  in  a  section  famed  for  its  production  of  asparagus.  In  a 
word,  no  point  on  the  North  Shore  presents  more  or  greater  attrac- 
tions than  this.  Here  are  hotels,  boarding  houses,  five  churches 
(Episcopal,  Methodist,  Baptist,  Roman  Catholic  and  Presbyterian), 
and  express,  telegraph  and  postal  facilities. 

Gold  Spring. — Riding  along  a  hard,  smooth  road  between 

noble  trees,  admiring  the  rolling  land,  and  its 
rich,  verdant  covering,  and  unprepared  for 
any  change  in  the  scene,  suddenly  Mill  Pond  Lake  bursts  upon  your 
view.  If  you  ever  grow  enthusiastic,  you  cannot  restrain  an  invol- 
untary exclamation  of  delight.  It  would  not  have  been  deemed 
possible  to  improve  or  adorn  that  embowered  sheet  of  liquid  silver, 
yet  the  lawns  before  the  mansion  of  Mr.  Townsend  Jones  contribute 
to  its  magic  beauty.  Beyond  this  there  are  other  surprises.  It  is 
the  fashion  of  this  country  to  take  its  admirers  unawares,  hiding  its 
greatest  charms  until  the  last  second,  and  then  letting  them  leap  into 
view  from  a  hill-top  or  a  bend  in  the  road.  Where  the  bay  is  first 
seen  is  the  State  Fish  Hatchery.  The  village  skirts  the  bay,  and  the 
two  together  are  indescribably  beautiful.  The  lovely  sheet  of  water 
is  a  gigantic  amphitheatre  between  towering  hills  hidden  under 
foliage.  At  the  north  the  hills  are  parted,  and  blue  sky  meets  blue 
water  far  out  in  the  Sound.  On  the  terraced  sides  of  the  amphi- 
theatre are  fine  cottages  and  inviting  hotels.  The  bay  is  gay  with 
craft,  from  tiny  row-boats  up  to  world-famous  yachts.     The  bathing 


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and  fishing  are  excellent.  Mr.  John  C.  Totten,  whose  stages  meet 
every  train,  offers  advantages  to  those  who  are  fond  of  driving. 
For  those  who  desire  to  hire  conveyances  he  has  a  variety  of  vehicles, 
and  a  fine  stable  of  horses  to  let  at  low  rates,  while  his  accommo- 
dation for  boarding  horses  are  extensive  and  excellent.  Upon  the 
hill-tops,  especially  the  highest,  a  magnificent  area  of  land  and  water 
is  spanned  by  the  naked  eye.  At  one's  feet  are  seen  Lloyd's  Neck 
and  Centre  Island,  and  some  of  the  other  resorts  we  are  to  visit.  In 
Cold  Spring  are  Baptist,  Episcopal  and  Methodist  churches,  and 
capacious  hotels  with  such  alluring  names  as  Laurelton  Hall,  For- 
est Lawn,  Thespian  Hall  and  Arcade  Castle.  Gas,  hot  and  cold 
water,  and  such  modern  conveniences  are  to  be  found  in  some  ;  but 
delightful  rooms,  fine  fare,  polite  attention  and  delightful  surround- 
ings go  with  them  all.  You  can  see  Norwalk,  Conn.,  from  Eaton's 
Neck  Light,  and  the  drive  to  the  Neck  is  one  of  exceeding  beauty, 
leading  five  miles  away  from 

Huntington. — Five  bays — Northport,  Centreport,  Cow  Har- 
bor, Lloyd's  Harbor  and  Huntington  Harbor 
— are  all  reached  from  the  Sound  through 


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Huntington  Bay.  Fancy  how  the  land  must  be  broken  up  into  penin- 
sulas and  capes,  and  necks  and  hooks.  And  all  these  shores  present 
the  same  wealth  of  vegetation  described  above.  Here  are  more  green 
hills,  more  lawns  reaching  down  to  the  clearest  water  imaginable  ; 
more  romantic,  winding,  shore-hugging  drives,  more  exhilarating  and 
refreshing  air.  The  harbor  itself  seems  land-locked,  like  a  Swiss 
lake,  and  from  certain  elevations  the  bay  and  Sound  appear  to  be 
shut  off  by  banks  of  foliage.  The  taste  that  cannot  be  suited  here  is 
difficult  to  serve,  for  whether  one  likes  village  life,  or  farm  scenes  and 
comforts,  or  water  views  and  sports,  here  he  may  end  his  search. 
That  indescribable  charm  which  distinguishes  an  ancient  village,  and 
seems  to  influence  even  the  people  in  it,  is  noticeable  in  old  Hunt- 
ington. It  needs  not  the  seventeenth  century  gravestones  on  Fort  Hill 
to  reveal  its  oldness  ;  you  feel  it  in  the  very  spirit  of  the  place.  Yet  it 
did  not  lack  enterprise  before  the  new  railroad  management  sent  a 
thrill  of  new  life  along  the  whole  shore  ;  but  now  it  is  all  the  more 
energetic.     It  contains  thirty  stores,  a  public  hall,  a  library  and  seven 


7^> 


churches.  The  wealthy  residents  of  the  place  constitute  a  refined  and 
hospitable  society.  Mr.  James  H.  Temple  has  an  elegant  house, 
surrounded  by  artistically  arranged  grounds.  Mr.  C.  H.  Davis,  Mr. 
Henry  Scudder,  Mr.  H.  C.  Brown,  and  Colonel  H.  B.  Beecher  also 
have  very  fine  establishments.  J.  R.  Maxwell,  Esq.,  Vice-President 
of  the  Long  Island  Railroad,  is  the  owner  of  one  hundred  acres  on 
West  Neck,  one  of  the  loveliest  points  along  the  shore.  His  house 
and  grounds  are  superb,  and  when  all  the  improvements  he  contem- 
plates are  finished  the  place  will  rank  with  the  notable  properties  of 
its  class.  There  are  two  good  hotels  and  a  dozen  boarding  cottages. 
Two  newspapers  are  published  here,  and  the  Suffolk  Driving  Park  is 
close  by.    To  the  eastward  is 

Greenlawn,  a  very  pretty  village  among  high  hills,  and  not  far 

from  the  water.  There  is  a  hotel  and  board- 
ing house  from  which  to  go  boating,  fish- 


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ing,  or,  when  you  tire  of  the  water,  to  enjoy  pretty  country  drives.  It 
is  on  the  way  to 

Centreport. — Here  are  repeated  the  beauties  of  the  water-side 
places  we  have  left  behind.  There  is  not  room  to  tell  anew  the  glorious 
succession  of  attractions,  but  one  might  express  his  feelings  if,  after  see- 
ing all  these  belles  among  country  beauties,  he  were  to  imagine  them 
all  personified,  as  the  Rhineland  towns  are  in  one  of  Disraeli's  stories. 
Then  let  him  remember  that  it  is  leap-year,  and  that  they  might  ask 
him  to  choose  one  among  them  for  an  eternal  (summer)  companion. 
For  our  part,  we  confess  we  would  be  in  a  plight  like  that  of  the  poet 
who  would  have  been  "  happy  with  either,  were  t'other  dear  charmer 
away."  But  this  should  be  said  :  Centreport  is  on  one  bay  and 
close  to  another,  and  her  hotel,  situated  in  a  nook  of  ravishing 
beauty,  provides  from  its  windows  a  view  one  could  never  tire  of. 
There  are  six  pleasant  cottages  to  receive  boarders  here.  One  of  the 
most  charming  drives  in  all  this  country  is  that  from  here  to 

Northport. — If  you  want  to  see  it  best,  come  upon  it  from  be- 
hind, by  the  road  from  the  depot.  It  is  a 
busy,  proud  little  place,  and  pretends  to  be 
too  keenly  interested  in  maintaining  its  forty  stores,  in  building  its  fleet 
of  three-masted  schooners,  in  raising  famous  cows,  and  in  shipping 


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oysters,  clams   and  scollops,  to  care  anything  about  mere  natural 
beauty  ;  but,  deep  in  their  hearts,  the  people  must  be  very  proud  of 
their  enchanting  surroundings.    The  harbor  is  shaped  like  the  Bay 
of  Naples,  and   in  its  clear  depths  are  reflected   the  light-colored 
houses  and  their  dark  background  of  green  hills.     Here  is  Mr.  C. 
H.  Delamaters's  famous  Beacon  stock  farm,  fine  dwelling  and  hand- 
some grounds;   and  William  Crozier's  Ayrshire  and  Jersey  farm, 
famed  also  for  its  Berkshire  pigs,  is  near  the  village. 
Close  to  the  harbor  are  the  Robbins  mansion  and 
the  residences  of  Daniel  Thompson,  H.  J.  Scudder,  "^^PS^ 


Mrs.  James  S.  Lewis,  F.  Carl  and  others.  There  is  excellent  accom- 
modation for  visitors,  and  added  to  all  the  other  pleasures  is  the 
treat  of  a  sail  to  Duck  Island,  where  Mr.  Rowland  (not  Reilly) 
"keeps  the  hotel."    Close  by  is 

East  Northport,  really  a  part  of  Northport,  with  stage  as 

well  as  rail  communication.     Yet  a  little 


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St  Johnland,  scene  of  a  humanitarian  enterprise  born  of  the 

kindly  brain  of  the  esteemed  and  pious 
author  of 


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I  would  not  live  alway ; 
I  ask  not  to  stay. 

The  project  embraces  a  number  of  philanthropic  and  charitable  ob- 
jects :   the  care  and  education  of  destitute  and  crippled  little  folk. 


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the  training  of  boys  and  girls,  and  a  home  for  old  men,  crippled, 
poor  or  friendless.  When  one  sees  the  buildings  and  notes  their 
surroundings  in  a  beautiful  firming  country,  fanned  by  healthful 
breezes,  the  sagacity  of  the  founder  becomes  apparent.  Here,  lodged 
in  a  farm-house,  one  may  forget  the  bustle  of  town  and  gain  strength 
as  well  as  rest.  For  variety,  the  drive  to  the  Sound  is  through  a 
short  bit  of  delightful  country,  and  though  not  direct,  is  a  pleasant 
way  to  reach 

Smithtown  and  Smithtown  Branch. — Here  the  store, 

hotel  and  mill  are  at  the  foot  of  a  restful, 
oval  pond  enclosed  on  two  sides  by  high. 


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tree-clau,  curving  hills.  At  the  village  end  this  giant  bowl  is  broken, 
and  the  clear  water  roars  over  a  little  dam,  and  runs  blithely  in  a  tiny 
brook  to  the  bay.  Above  is  a  smaller  pond  equally  charming,  and 
all  about  are  cosey  village  homes.  The  little  Riverside  Hotel  is  a 
model  of  neatness.  There  is  another  hotel  a  mile  away  from  the  lake 
by  the  railroad,  and  beyond  that,  along  the  turnpike,  is  Smithtown 
Branch — an  aggregation  of  substantial  farm-houses  side  by  side,  along 
a  broad  road  whose  carriage  tracks  wind  through  green  turf  beneath 
rows  of  noble  oaks.  The  shingled  houses,  ample  barns,  neat  gardens 
and  tranquil  farm-yard  scenes  make  up  a  captivating  picture.  Three 
miles  north  of  the  station  lies  the  Sound.  Its  shores  are  fronted  with 
precipitous  cliffs,  and  the  rugged  aspect  of  the  place  has  a  charm  for 
city  eyes.  A  popular  pastime  here  is  to  sit  upon  some  shelving  rock 
and  watch  the  gambols  of  thousands  of  sea-birds,  floating  lazily 
through  the  air,  and  now  and  anon  swooping  down  to  seize  their 
finny  prey  and  fly  with  it  into  the  nests  among  the  rocks.  Next  on 
the  road  is 

St.  James,  a  little  village,  but  to  many  the  most  beautiful  in 

its  combination  of  water  and  land  scenerv 
of  all  the   spots  in  this  vicinity.      Half  a 


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dozen  families  take  boarders  here.    Its  neighbor, 

Stony  Brook,  is  stretched  along  the  sloping  side  of  a  valley 

between  rounded  hills,  its  main  street  follow- 
ing a  brook  that  empties  into  a  mill-pond, 


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following  that  in  turn  into  Great  Bay.    From  these  hills,  that  shield  the 


town  in  winter,  one  may  see  the  vessel-dotted  Sound  and  the  smoke- 
blue  shore  of  distant  Connecticut.  The  bay  spreads  wide  to  catch  the 
summer  winds,  and  the  sparkling  waters  break  in  miniature  waves 
upon  white  shingle  beaches  at  the  feet  of  the  sloping  lawns  and  green- 
robed  hills.  Here  are  stores,  churches,  suburban-looking  villas,  a 
post-office,  boats,  bathing-beaches,  game,  fish  and  wild  birds,  good 

- 


want 


e  air.  Close  by 
quiet  for  those 
The  principal 
hostelry  is  the  Stony  Brook  Hotel, 
an  ample  mansion,  commanding 
from  high  ground  a  view  of  all 
the  prettinesses  of  the  place.  It 
has  its  well-stocked  bar-room,  billiard-saloon  and  bowling-alleys  in  a 
separate  building,  so  that  nothing  shall  disturb  the  home-like  air  of 
the  comfortable  hotel.    Beyond  lies 

Setauket,  with  two  shingled  ante-revolutionary  churches  perch- 
ed upon  a  hill  high  above  Setauket  Bay, 
so  that  the  tallest  trees  shall  not  conceal 


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their  quaint  old  belfries  from  "the  country  round  about."    A  village 


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clusters  near  them,  with  a  green-fringed  pond  on  one  side  and  the 
bay  upon  the  other.  Another  village,  or  another  part  of  the  same 
village  (if  you  are  as  particular  as  the  old  darkey  who  said  he  "did 
not  hear  de  secon'  bell  ;  dat  was  de  secon'  ringin'  ob  de  fust  bell 
lines  the  head  of  the  pretty  bay.  Here  are  the  same  attractions 
re-repeated.  Last  of  all,  at  the  end  of  this  branch  of  the  railroad,  is 
Port  Jefferson. — This  is  a  rural  metropolis,  a  veritable  hive 

of  industry.  The  hum  of  its  machinery, 
well   plied  tools  and  busy  streets  is  heard 


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before  the  visitor  gains  the  hill-tops,  from  which  it  is  to  be  seen 
huddled  upon  its  dozen  streets  behind  the  busiest  bay  on  the  shore. 
Here  are  forty  stores,  two  newspapers  and  several  hotels.  On  the 
waters  ride  great  schooners,  trim  yachts,  capacious  sloops  and  the 
white-topped  Bridgeport  steamers.  On  shore  are  other  boats  in 
every  stage  of  overhauling  or  construction,  the  gallant  "Fleetwing," 
of  ocean  yacht  race  renown,  towering  high  and  dry  among  them. 
There  are  no  less  than  nine  marine  railways  on  the  beach.  The 
best  known  and  busiest  of  sail-lofts  is  here.  The  huge  spread  of 
canvas  with  which  the  yacht  "America"  won  the  world's  champion- 
ship came  from  this  place.  Everything  about  a  ship — her  hulls, 
her  masts,  her  iron  work,  her  rigging,  her  spars — everything  there 
is,  can  be  had  at  the  port ;  and  there  is  more  repairing  of  vessels 
here  than  anywhere  else  between  Boston  and  New  York.  From 
here  to  Boston  and  the  Connecticut  cities  are  shipped  tons  of  straw- 
berries and  garden  stuff,  for  a  grand  farming  country  lies  behind 
the  encircling  hills.  There  are  two  flouring  mills  here,  one  of  which 
ships  its  considerable  out-put  to  distant  lands  and  cities. 

For  summer  visitors  there  are  fine  attractions.  Mr.  Raynor  of  the 
Port  Jefferson  Hotel  offers  a  handsome  reward  for  the  capture  of  a 
single  mosquito.  It  would  almost  pay  to  smuggle  a  good,  lusty, 
seven-octave  mosquito  down  here — one  that  could  live  in  this  air — 
from  one  of  the  New  Jersey  resorts,  in  order  to  secure  the  premium. 
The  bay  is  big  and  safe — the  shape  of  a  horse-shoe  with  the  ends 
drawn  close  together ;  ample  to  sail  a  yacht  in,  safe  to  learn  to  sail 
upon,  and  with  an  inlet  with  fourteen  feet  depth  of  water  leading 
into  the  Sound,  whose  waters  dance  in  plain  sight  between  the  village 


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and  the  dim, 
blue  Connecticut 
shore,  twelve  miles  away. 
Quiet  bathing  is  to  be  had 
in  the  bay,  and  beyond  it 
are    the    Sound  beaches. 
There  are  very  picturesque  build- 
ing sites  upon  the  hills  at  the 
sides  and  foot  of  the  bay,  and  many  of 
these   are    "  improved,"   as    the  saying 
goes,  with  city  men's  homes  and  the  villas  of 


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wealthy  Long  Islanders.  These  and  the  green  foliage  on  the  ter- 
raced slopes  are  reproduced  in  the  clear  mirror-like  bay,  whose  water 
is  as  untainted  as  when  the  Puritans  first  sailed  upon  it  to  found 
the  village.  The  most  enchanting  scenery  on  Long  Island  is  that 
found  along  short  drives  in  every  direction.  Besides  the  trips  made 
by  the  steamboat  to  Bridgeport,  across  the  cool  broad  Sound,  there 
is  a  constant  chance  to  sail  out  through  the  inlet  to 

Oldfield  Point,  a  combination  of  beach  and  woodland  upon 
the  Sound,  and  a  place  already  known  to  hundreds.  Here  is  a 
pleasant  little  community  affording  accommodations  for  those  who 
desire  to  spend  their  vacations  in  one  of  the  coolest  and  most 
beautiful  of  watering  places.  Stages  run  between  the  Point  and  Port 
Jefferson,  and  Setauket  and  Stony  Brook  are  almost  as  close  at  hand. 

Beyond  the  railroad  terminus,  and  yet  close  to  it,  are  Mount 
Sinai,  Miller's  Place,  Rocky  Point  and  Middle  Island,  retired 
country  places  offering  the  attractions  of  water  scenery,  sport  with 
rod  and  gun,  or  farm  life,  to  him  that  flees 

From  Babel-strife 
To  the  green  Sabbath-land  of  life, 
To  dodge  dull  care  'mid  clustered  trees, 
And  cool  his  forehead  in  the  breeze. 


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MAIN   LINE  AND  CENTRAL  SECTION. 


'HE  reader  does  not  need  to  be  reminded  that  in  whatever 
direction  he  journeys  the  start  is  made  from  Long  Island  City 
or  from  Brooklyn,  from  which  latter  city  passengers  have  exactly  the 
same  facilities  as  at  the  former  place  for  all  points,  except  the  North 
Side  Division,  to  Flushing,  Great  Neck,  etc.  Brooklyn  passengers 
connect  with  the  main  line  at  Jamaica,  to  which  we  have  already 
been,  and  from  which  we  will  extend  our  journey  along 

THE  CENTRE  OF  THE  ISLAND. 

Too  little  is  known  of  the  wide  tract  through  the  middle  of 
Long  Island,  along  the  centre  of  which  the  great  majority  of  the 
passengers  by  the  railroad  are  whirled  to  the  bays  and  beaches  at 
the  eastern  end  of  the  territory.  So  great  is  the  general  ignorance 
about  the  central  tract  that  an  editor,  who  recently  sought  to  call 
attention  to  those  merits  he  had  heard  the  country  was  possessed 
of,  called  it  "The  Plains,"  and  then  went  on  to  write  about  it  as 
if  it  were  a  level  prairie  like  the  Hempstead  Plain,  only  different 
from  that  section  in  the  possession  of  occasional  tracts  of  forest 
land. 

So  uninviting  and  so  deceptive  is  the  view  from  the  cars  over 
many  miles  of  this  tract  that  it  is,  perhaps,  no  wonder  few  persons 
have  taken  the  trouble  to  explore  beyond  the  pine  woods  whose 
fire-blackened  trunks  increase  the  ugliness  of  what  was  originally 
thoroughly  unattractive. 

And  yet  even  this  land,  when  examined  by  a  number  of 
eminent  agriculturists  and  practical  farmers,  was  found  to  possess 
rich  productive  qualities.  These  gentlemen  have  placed  on  record 
carefully  written  testimonials  to  this  effect,  but  it  would  be  unneces- 
sary to  quote  from  them  in  view  of  the  fact  that  every  here  and 


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there  the  traveler  may  see  villages  built  up  and  thrifty  farms  smiling 
where  but  a  short  time  ago  the  wilderness  extended.  The  soil  is 
a  fine  yellow  loam,  one  to  two  feet  deep,  upon  a  compact  bed  of 
sand  and  gravel,  which  is  free  from  quicksands  and  forms  a  perfect 
under-drain. 

But  who  that  has  not  made  the  journey  is  aware  that  along 
this  section  runs  a  chain  of  hills  200  feet  in  height,  with  beautiful 
waving  green  fields  stretching  out  on  either  side  of  their  base  ? 
Who  that  has  not  seen  them  would  suspect  that  here,  too,  are 
thrifty  little  villages  whose  pretty  cottages  are  set  amid  blooming 
gardens,  or  at  the  edges  of  large  and  valuable  farms  ?  From  these 
hills,  in  a  region  unsurpassed  for  salubrity,  one  may  see  the  ocean, 
the  Sound  and  great  stretches  of  Long  Island,  with  its  gleaming 
ponds  and  silvery  threads  of  water,  its  villages,  farm  lands  and 
forests  spread  out  as  in  a  bird's-eye  view. 

The  writer  drove  through  this  region  on  a  bright  spring  day. 
Leaving  Farmingdale,  a  prosperous  farming  centre  which  is  itself  in 
part  reclaimed  from  the  forest,  he  rode  straight  into  the  centre  of  the 
island.  The  newly-green  acres  of  the  village  outskirts  soon  began 
to  give  way  to  patches  of  forest,  and  presently  houses,  fields  and 
fences  vanished,  and  the  way  led  along  a  hard,  smooth  road  through 
cool  and  silent  woods.  As  the  eye  became  accustomed  to  the 
general  scene  it  began  to  scan  the  details  which  together  comprise 
the  monotonous  and  yet  not  unpleasing  view.  Bit  by  bit  it  dawned 
upon  the  vision  and  the  mind  that  not  even  the  so-called  wilder- 
ness had  ever  been  examined  or  described  for  the  public.  It  was 
no  wilderness  at  all.  It  blossomed  like  the  rose.  Here  was  the 
earth  covered  with  moss  and  enriching  dead  leaves,  and  above  these 
were  a  myriad  plants  and  vines,  all  green-leaved  and  many  blossom- 
ing. Here  was  the  wild  rose,  the  laurel,  the  trailing  arbutus,  wild 
berry  bushes  and  many  growths  the  writer  could  not  name.  Above 
rose  the  straight  shafts  of  several  sorts  of  trees.  Oaks  wTere  the  most 
plenty,  and  there  were  locusts,  chestnuts,  cedars,  pines  and  other 
varieties.  Where  the  pines  grew  the  soil  was  thinner  and  more 
sandy ;  but,  in  a  two  days  journey,  only  one  tract  of  pines  (that 
between  Smithtown  Branch  and  Lake  Ronkonkoma)  was  passed, 


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and  just  beyond  them,  almost  at  the  lake-side,  was  a  community 
of  farmers.  Whenever  the  roads  were  cut  through  undulations  in 
the  land,  it  was  possible  to  see  the  rich,  dark  soil  extending  to  and 
resting  upon  a  mixture  of  yellow  sand  and  round  white  pebbles. 
This  soil  was  not  in  any  place  less  than  two  feet  deep. 

Rich  farming  villages  were  to  be  found  surrounded  by  the 
forest,  in  which  men  were  to  be  seen,  on  all  sides,  wielding  their 
axes  and  widening  the  area  of  civilization,  in  circles  of  ever  widening 
diameter,  like  those  that  spread  from  the  pebbles  a  child  casts  into 
a  pond.  One  needs  not  to  ask  the  denizens  of  a  farming  country 
whether  their  land  is  good  or  bad.  The  public  roads,  the  houses, 
the  out-buildings,  aye,  even  the  fences,  tell  the  unbidden  tale. 
Therefore  it  is  a  significant  fact  that  in  all  Long  Island,  or  in  New 
York  State  itself,  there  are  no  more  prosperous  looking  villages  of 
their  size  than  New  Village  or  Melville,  two  places  literally  chopped 
out  of  the  forest.  There  are  dozens  of  other  such  villages  away  from 
the  railroad,  and  beyond  Farmingdale  there  are  ten  flourishing 
stations  where  smiling  settlements  have  been  built  upon  clearings 
in  the  woods.  No  extra  amount  of  fertilizers  is  needed.  The  land 
is  easy  to  clear  and  easy  to  till,  and  will  produce  any  crops  raised 
in  this  latitude.  A  thrifty  farmer,  long  settled  in.  the  forest,  is  our 
authority  for  the  statement  that  the  farmers  find  that  it  pays  to  cut 
the  forest  and  extend  the  farms.  The  new  soil  yields  a  sufficient 
amount  in  excess  of  the  vield  of  the  old  farm  land  to  make  it 

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profitable. 

What  an  immense  field  is  here  open  for  transformation  into 
farms  and  villages,  at  moderate  cost  and  with  certain  and  prompt 
reward  for  each  settler  !  The  railroad  is  close  at  hand,  the  markets 
are  near  ;  schools,  churches  and  towns  are  on  every  hand.  The  sea 
and  the  Sound  are  never  more  than  five  miles  away  from  the  centre- 
most  point  in  this  tract ;  the  'land  is  far  above  the  sea-level  and 
the  air  is  ever  pure  and  invigorating — an  elixir  made  up  of  the 
breath  of  the  sea  and  the  balsam  of  the  forest.  It  is  for  a  tenth 
part  of  such  advantages  that  the  Old  World  swarms  are  seeking 
the  distant  territories. 

To  begin  the  journey — next  beyond  Jamaica  is 


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Queen's,  an  attractive  little  village  set  in  a  rolling  expanse 

of  verdure,  possessing  shaded  roads  and 
substantial    homes  —  a  handy  site  for  the 


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homes  of  those  who  spend  their  day-times  in  town.  A  little  far- 
ther on  is 

Hinsdale,  not  so  well  built  up  as  Queen's,  but  presenting  a 

fine  area  of  verdant  country  between  the 
railroad  and  the  adjacent  line  of  blue  hills. 


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The  fine  farm-houses  of  an  ancient  and  thrifty  population  are 
scattered  here  and  there,  and  one  is  also  able  to  perceive  the  nucleus 
of  a  coming  town  of  those  who  are  certain  soon  to  perceive  the  wants 
of  this  entire  section  for  households  whose  heads  do  business  in 
the  city.    We  find 

Hyde  Park  a  rich  agricultural  district,  and  containing  a  hotel 

and  other  public  accommodations,  as  well 
as  some  fine  cottages — forerunners  of  the 


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settlement  that  surely  will,  at  no  distant  day,  grow  up  in  this  handy 
suburb  of  the  metropolis.  Of 

Mineola  one  gets  an  unfavorable  impression   from  the  car 

windows,  the  truth  being  that  here  is  a 
prosperous  country-side,  adorned  with  well 


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kept  drives,  shaded  lanes,  fruit  orchards,  blooming  fields  and  pretty 
homes.  Here  tracks  diverge  for  the  Glen  Cove  and  Locust  Valley 
Branch,  as  described  on  page  64.    Ahead  is 

Garden   City. — The  site   of  Garden  City,  when  the  late 

Mr.  A.  T.  Stewart  purchased/  it,  had  ever 
been  regarded,  by  all  who  honored  it  with 


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any  attention,  as  about  as  sterile  and  in  all  respects  unprofitable 
a  tract  as  could  be  found  near  New  York.  Farmers  supposed 
nothing  would  grow  there  but  the  grass  that  coated  it.  Now  see 
what  the  notorious  Hempstead  Barren  has  become.  Thirty  miles 
of  boulevards,  fringed  with  flourishing  shade  trees,  cottages  set  in 
as  rich  gardens  as  any  place  can  boast  of,  water  plentiful  enough 
for  the  needs  of  the  place  many  years  from  now ;  these  are 
among  the  more  noteworthy  developments  of  this  pretty,  thriving 
suburb.     Now,  it  is  a  matter  of  common  fame  that  the  nature  of 


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the  soil,  the  high  elevation  of  the  plateau  and  the  central  situation 
between  the  Sound  and  the  ocean,  combine  to  make  this  one  of 
the  most  healthful  cities  man  has  built.  And  its  situation  is  as 
remarkable  from  the  stand-point  of  convenience.  Its  male  inhab- 
itants are  largely  business  men  of  New  York,  able  to  spend  the 
day  at  business,  and  the  mornings,  evenings  and  nights  at  home, 
as  well  as  to  take  their  families,  conveniently,  to  the  neighboring 
resorts — Fire  Island,  Babylon,  Coney  Island  or  Rockaway.  The 
houses  are  fitted  with  all  modern  improvements.  The  hotel  is  an 
admirable  establishment.  The  Cathedral  is  notable  among  the 
churches  of  the  land,  and  the  educational  facilities  are  extraor- 
dinary. It  is  a  tribute  to  the  founder's  shrewd  judgment,  rather 
than  to  Long  Island,  that  all  this  now  exists  upon  the  long  ignored 
plain.     Here  we  change  cars  for  the  one-mile  ride  to 


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Hempstead,  a  rich  and  beautiful  settlement,  older  than  our 

government,  and  famed  for  the  salubrity 
of  its  climate,  the  beauty  of  its  surround- 


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ings  and  the  number  of  city  men  who  make  it  either  their  permanent 
or  their  summer  homes.  Here  those  who  contemplate  removal  to 
a  beautiful  suburb  will  find  good  board  in  a  solid  and  hospitable 
old  community,  supplied  with  water,  gas,  a  town  hall,  Liberty 
Hall  and  a  fire  department.  Everywhere,  in  the  well  kept  streets, 
the  handsome  villas  and  the  tasteful  grounds  and  gardens,  are 
evidences  of  wealth  and  refinement.  Summer  visitors  will  be  glad 
to  know  that  there  are  three  excellent  hotels,  at  one  of  which,  a 
picturesque  old  place,  Washington  once  refreshed  and  rested  his 
horses.  There  are  five  churches  —  Methodist,  Episcopal,  Presby- 
terian, Roman  Catholic  and  African  Methodist.  The  rector  of  the 
Episcopal  church  can  show  a  registry  of  baptisms  and  marriages 
dating  back  159  years,  a  communion  service  of  plate  presented  by 
Queen  Anne  in  1706,  and  other  relics  of  our  country's  infancy  and 
dependence  upon  her  mother-land.  The  interest  upon  the  fund 
accruing  to  the  town  from  the  sale  of  Garden  City's  site  to  the  late 
A.  T.  Stewart  is  applied  to  the  schools  and  the  poor.  All  about 
here  are  fine  farms,  highly  productive  orchards  and  charming 
country  seats.  Back  upon  the  main  line  again,  the  land  is  once 
more  undulating.     Here  wTe  come  upon 

Westbury,  a  considerable  farming  town,  not  lacking  the  black- 
smith shop,  wheelwrights  and  churches, 
without  which,  it  would  appear,  no  place 


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can  justly  be  called  a  village.  The  fine  grazing  ground  produces  a 
large  daily  yield  of  milk  for  the  city.    A  larger  place  is 

Hicksville,  with  its  two  schools,    hotel,  stores  and  inviting 

well  shaded  avenues  and  streets.  This  is 
a  thriving  farmers'  centre — a  delightful  site 


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for  homes  and  inland  resort  for  summer  visitors.  Jericho,  two  miles 
north,  is  already  a  resort  for  summer  boarders,  and  there  is  a  hotel 
there  for  transient  visitors.  Hicksville  contains  ten  small  factories. 
Hence,  on  its  pleasant  northward  way,  reaches  the  Port  Jefferson 
Branch,  whose  manifold  attractions  are  elsewhere  set  forth.  Beyond 


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Central  Park  the  traveller  passes  a  considerable  tract  of  that 

pine  land  which  we  have  shown  to  be  so 
greatly  deceiving ;  but  Central  Park  itself 


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lies,  smiling  and  white,  in  a  great  fertile  green  clearing.  Its  gardens 
and  fields  are  eloquent  advocates  of  the  claims  of  this  section  upon 
the  attention  of  settlers.  Low  valuations,  meagre  taxes,  plentiful 
water  and  the  great  advantages  of  a  busy  railroad  peculiarly  adapt 
all  these  places  for  manufactures.  There  is  already  one  factory 
here  and  a  good  hotel.  Many  happy  homes  lead  the  way  for 
more.  At 

Bethpage,  close  by,  is  found  the  beginning  of  another  farm 
surrounded  settlement.    Brick  making  is  carried  on  here.  At 

Farming'clale,  a  little  white  and  green  village  on  ground 

recently  reclaimed  from  the  woods  and  con- 
taining broad  acres  of  grain  fields,  whose 


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every  spear  speaks  volumes  for  the  possibilities  of  the  wilderness 
that  is  now  what  this  once  was.  There  is  a  school-house,  a  cluster 
of  churches  and  a  good  hotel  here.  Two  pickle  factories,  a  flouring 
mill  and  a  picture-frame  factory  open  the  way  for  other  manufac- 
tories. On,  through  the  woods,  a  sudden  reminder  of  civilization  is 
West  Deer  Park,  a  pretty  hamlet  close  to  the  green  Comae 

Hills,  feeling  the  benefits  of  good  railroad 
management  and  constantly  increasing  its 


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elbow-room  in  the  forest,  as  well  as  the  number  of  its  healthy  homes. 
Gen.  Casey's  mineral  springs  are  an  attraction  here ;  and  at  this 
place,  as  well  as  at 

Deer  Park,  we  are  passing  through  a  fine  fruit  producing- 

country,  and  parallel  with  a  much  greater 
extent  of  farming  land  than  is  hinted  at  in 


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the  view  from  the  cars.    There  is  a  hotel  in  Deer  Park.  In 

Brentwood  are  the  luxuriant  nurseries  whose  sturdy  products, 

I    in  the  shape  of  shade    trees   and  orna- 

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s  trains  daily.      2  tra.ns  Sunday.      mental  trees  and  shrubs,   attract  attention 


both  before  we  come  to  the  place  and  for  miles  beyond.  Here 
are  well  kept  roads  and  very  many  pretty  homes  ;  that  of  Mrs. 
R.  \Y.   Pearsall,   commanding  a  view  of   both  Sound  and  Great 


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South  Bay,  having  cost  $150,000.  There  is  an  Episcopal  church 
in  the  village.    The  next  station, 

Central  Islip,  is  the  summer  resting  place  of  Mr.  James 

Slater,  who  owns  the  Berkely  in  Fifth  Ave- 
nue and  the  Pavilion  in  Islip.  A  beautiful 
drive  is  that  due  south  to  Islip  and  the  Great  South  Bay.  Here, 
again,  are  fine  farms,  a  cheerful  village,  two  churches,  and  whole- 
some surroundings.  The  balsamic  outgivings  of  the  neighboring 
pine  woods,  though  not  perceptible  to  the  sense  of  smell,  add  to 
the  otherwise  pure  atmosphere  properties  that  are  said  to  be  cura- 
tives for  consumptives.    When  the  writer  first  saw 

Ronkonkoma  he  had  been  riding  for  hours  through  farm  land 

and  forest.  The  sun  shone  with  pleasant, 
early  morning  warmth,  the  wind  sighed  in 


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the  tree-tops,  and  a  myriad  birds  lifted  their  voices  towrard  the  blue 
sky.  Suddenly,  before  the  nucleus  of  a  village,  the  forest  disappeared, 
and  in  an  instant  there  was  disclosed  a  great  pear-shaped  lake,  skirted 
by  a  broad,  gently-sloping  beach,  and  around  that,  in  a  third  rude 
oval,  the  enclosing  hill-sides,  dotted  wTith  pretty  cottages  amid  lawns 
and  groves,  and  connected  by  a  bowery  road. 

The  wild  rose,  eglantine  and  broom 
Wafted  around  their  rich  perfume  ; 
The  birch-tree  wept  in  fragrant  balm, 
The  aspens  slept  beneath  their  calm  ; 
The  silver  light,  with  quivering  glance, 
Played  on  the  water's  still  expanse. 

No  wonder  that  artists  have  drawn  and  painted  it  from  an  hundred 
stand-points  ;  that  poets  have  raved  about  it  and  tourists  have  been 
shouting  praises  of  its  beauty  for  fifty  years  or  more.  Probably  none 
has  done  it  justice,  or  ever  can.  It  is  unique  ;  its  beauty  grows  upon 
one,  not  for  an  hour  or  even  a  week,  but  for  a  summer ;  and  every 
month  it  is  new  to  the  gaze  in  the  changing  hues  of  the  foliage  and 
the  altering  light  of  the  skies.  Ronkonkoma  means  Sand  Pond,  and 
was  suggested  to  the  Indians  by  the  broad  beach  of  fine,  white  sand 
pebbles,  fit  to  drive  upon,  which  skirts  the  water.  They  would  have 
done  better  to  have  named  it  with  a  word  that  means  Sylvan  Water, 
/or  its  mirror-like  surface  is  tinged  with  the  reflection  of  the  foliage 


of  the  shaded  hill-sides  all  around  it.  Better  yet,  they  might  have 
named  it  the  Lake  of  Glass,  for  the  water,  as  pure  as  if  distilled,  and 
as  sweet  as  ever  water  was,  is  so  transparent  that  the  smooth,  hard 
bed,  and  every  tiny  ridge  upon  it,  is  clearly  visible  at  a  considerable 
depth.  Its  surface  is  nearly  fifty-five  feet  above  the  surface  of  the 
Sound,  but  it  has  in  one  place  a  depth  of  eighty-three  feet.  Every 

inch  of  ground  around 
it  is  hard  ;  there  is  no 
marsh,   no    mud,  no 
foot  -  hold    for  those 
dreaded  M's — 
miasma,  mal- 
aria, or  mos- 
q  u  i  t  o  e  s  . 
Here  health 


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is  in  everv  whisper  of  the  ^  )^m^4^n^Pii  f) 
breeze;  and  since  the  ocean  \\fvm/l  r^vk  /,'/■ 
and  Sound  are  equally  close 
at  hand,  and  the  calm,  cool 
forest  almost  surrounds  the  lake;  its  refreshing  atmosphere  must  ever 
be,  in  summer,  vastly  more  cool  than  that  of  almost  any  other  inland 
watering  place  in  the  country.  A  more  healthful  place  is  not  to  be 
found,  or  one  more  attractive  to  ladies  or  safer  for  children.     It  is 


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inviting  to  sportsmen  also,  for  not  only  are  the  woods  close  at  hand, 
but  the  lake  itself  is  the  occasional  resort  of  nearly  every  species  of 
water-bird  found  in  the  United  States.  There  hardly  could  be  found 
a  richer  field  for  the  student  of  natural  history.  Perch,  black  bass, 
Oswego  bass  •  and  catfish  are  the  denizens  of  the  crystal  waters. 
The  little  belfry  of  St.  Mary's-by-the-Lake,  an  Episcopal  church,  is 
seen  above  the  oaks  and  chestnut-trees  on  the  south  side,  and  only 
a  quarter  of  a  mile  away  are  the  Methodist  and  Baptist  churches 
and  the  school-house.  Within  a  very  few  miles  are  houses  of  wor- 
ship of  nearly  every  sect.  Stages  will  meet  every  train  for  and  from 
the  city.  There  is  a  fine  hotel,  and  a  number  of  the  cottage  folk 
take  boarders.  Ex-Alderman  W.  P.  Kirk  has  a  house  here  ;  Mr. 
Seymour,  of  Arnold,  Constable  &  Co.,  has  just  built  a  beautiful 
villa  ;  Mr.  George  F.  Devere,  the  theatrical  manager,  spends  his 
summers  here  ;  Mr.  Daniel  O'Connor,  Dr.  Catanach,  and  Mr.  Charles 
N.  Brown  have  notable  places,  and  Mr.  Fords,  of  the  publishing 
house  of  Fords,  Howard  &  Hurlburt,  is  a  summer  resident. 

Waverly. — Settlers  will  find  good  farming  land  at  compara- 
tively low  prices  here,  and  city  visitors  of  a 
retiring  disposition,  who  love  country  life, 


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will  find  accommodation  very  moderate.    In  the  neighborhood  ot 
Medford  is  a  wild  but  salubrious  country  that  it  would  be 

profitable  to  clear  and  till.  The  soil  is 
rich  and  very  productive  when  cultivated. 


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Fresh-water  lakes  begin  to  be  plenty  near 

Yaphank,  a  cosey,  nourishing  village,  built  upon  a  clearing 

in  the  woods.  Farming  occupies  the  atten- 
tion of  the  inhabitants  during  six  days,  and 
two  clergymen  minister  to  the  spiritual  wants  of  the  place  on  Sun- 
days. The  model  farm,  connected  with  a  county  institution  here, 
demonstrates  very  thoroughly  the  worth  of  the  land  in  the  hands  of 
energy  and  enterprise.    Although  there  are  probably  very  few  of 

LONG  ISLAND'S  PRETTY  GIRLS 

in  Yaphank,  there  is  no  more  appropriate  place  than  this  to  render 
homage  to  the  fair  island  maidens  who  rival  the  flowers  in  their 


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beauty,  and  all  the  other  charming  features  of  their  native  region  in 
their  graces  and  virtues.  Pretty  girls  abound  upon  Long  Island. 
Many  of  the  boys  come  to  New  York,  but  the  girls  remain  at  home. 
Their  lives  are  spent  amid  the  most  wholesome  surroundings.  Pure 
air,  clear  water  and  the  best  of  food  are  their  birth-rights,  and 
these  put  roses  in  their  cheeks,  elasticity  and  gracefulness  in  their 
movements,  and  vigor  in  their  muscles.  They  are  not  addle-pates  or 
gawks,  as  girls  in  more  distant  villages  are  sometimes  rudely  said  to 
be.  They  quickly  acquire  taste  in  dress  from  seeing  the  city  fashions 
all  summer  in  their  native  places,  and  in  the  winter  when  they  run 
up  to  town  to  do  a  little  shopping.  They  see  the  city  newspapers 
also,  and  never  could,  by  any  chance,  fall  into  the  error  of  that  country 
maiden  who  said  she  "Knew  what  a  philosopher  was.  She  guessed  she 
ought  to.  Her  little  brother  was  run  over  by  one  of  them  that  a  man 
was  riding  on  in  the  middle  of  the  road."  The  Long  Island  girls  are 
apt  to  be  of  English  or  Holland  stock,  and  therefore  make  prudent 
and  skillful  housewives  ;  and,  indeed,  they  are  not  at  all  afraid  to 
work.  You  see  them  bare-armed  in  the  kitchens  of  their  fathers' 
hotels  and  boarding  houses  ;  they  wait  upon  you  at  dinner,  and  in 
the  evening  you  will  find  them  at  the  pianos  or  their  sewing,  or 
bending  over  a  magazine,  or,  more  practical  than  all  these  employ- 
ments, walking  through  the  village  streets  with  some  handsome  young 
cavalier.  The  Long  Island  girl  can  swim  like  a  frog,  sail  a  boat,  and 
figure  the  cost  of  a  passenger's  dress  at  the  same  time  ;  row  like  a 
sailor,  and  either  fish  or  let  an  admirer  do  the  work  while  she  superin- 
tends, according  to  circumstances.  On  land  she  is  like  a  deer.  She 
is  a  dear.  You  can  tell  a  Long  Island  girl  by  her  pink  and  white  face 
and  brown  hands.  She  shades  her  face,  but  hates  to  wear  gloves. 
They  are  good-natured,  healthy,  independent  and  a  trifle  saucy ;  cold 
and  distant  to  slight  acquaintances,  but  are  said  to  be  very  loving 
with  those  who  win  them.  There  is  music  in  their  speech,  poetry  in 
their  motion,  and  virtue  in  their  company.  And  (this  is  confidential) 
every  one  of  them  is  bent  upon  one  object — to  get  a  city  husband. 
Manor,   a  smiling  little  town  at  the  head  of  the  Peconic 

River.  The  few  houses  are  widely  scattered 
over  a  fertile  region.     Board  can  be  had 


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in  several  of  them,  as  well  as  in  the  Manorville  Hotel,  which  is  well 
patronized  by  city  visitors  every  summer.  The  contiguous  pine 
woods  not  only  beautify  the  level  plain,  but  add  to  the  wholesome 
qualities  of  the  atmosphere.  Pickerel  and  perch  are  plenty  in  the 
lakes.  There  are  two  churches  in  Manor,  and  its  inhabitants  have 
the  advantage  of  the  short  branch  at  that  point  connecting  at  Eastport 
with  the  Montauk  Division  for  all  the  ocean  resorts. 

Baiting  Hollow,  the  station  beyond  Manor,  is  also  in  a  good 

farming  district,  and  sends  to  New  York 
and  Boston  large  quantities  of  farm  produce, 


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especially  cauliflowers,  strawberries  and  cranberries.  The  market 
town  for  all  this  region  is 

Riverhead,  to  be  found  in  the  maps  at  that  point  where  the 

end  of  the  island  appears  to  begin  to  tear 
in  two.    It  is  the  liveliest  town  on  eastern 


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Long  Island,  the  prospective  seat  of  a  large  manufacturing  interest, 
the  principal  trading  point  and  the  capital  of  Suffolk  County.  Al- 
though there  are  many  prettier  places,  its  hotels  and  boarding  houses 
are  crowded  all  summer  long.  This  is  because  the  temperature  is 
delightful,  the  people  are  hospitable,  and  the  town  is  a  good  starting 
point  for  journeys  down  the  bay  or  to  the  beaches,  or  the  farming 
districts.  There  is  no  pastime  to  be  enjoyed  on  Long  Island  that 
cannot  be  indulged  in  within  a  short  distance  of  Riverhead.  On 
certain  days  and  nights  in  each  week  the  place  bustles  like  a  minia- 
ture city,  and  each  of  its  fifty  stores  is  busied  with  custom.  The 
village  has  no  sentimental  record  and  no  fine  retrospect,  like  the  old 
whaling  ports  near  by,  and  the  ancient  settlements  both  east  and  west 
of  it.  It  is  a  new  place  sustained  upon  modern  principles.  Already 
it  includes  among  its  possessions  moulding  and  flour  mills,  a  cigar 
factory,  and  a  large  lumber  yard.  Its  excellent  railroad  facilities  and 
the  river  it  is  built  beside,  which  is  navigable  for  vessels  of  many  tons, 
invite  manufactures.  Water-power  is  plentiful.  Here,  too,  are  the 
court-house,  the  jail,  post-office,  a  fine  school,  and  Roman  Catholic, 
Episcopal,  Swedenborgian,  Methodist  and  Presbyterian  churches,  a 
weekly  newspaper,  and  a  savings  bank.  The  County  Fair  Grounds 
are  in  the  village.     Leading  eastward  from  Riverhead  is  the  most 


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remarkable  country  road  in  America — the  longest  street  in  the  United 
States,  except  Broadway.  The  tourist  has,  doubtless,  been  surprised 
ere  this  to  learn  that  the  broad  avenue  he  finds  tracing  a  parallel 
line  to  the  Hudson  all  the  way  to  Albany,  and  called  Broadway  a 
great  part  of  the  distance,  is  New  York  City's  grand  commercial 


boulevard. 
Between  Riv- 
erhead  and 
Greenport  he 
will  find  its 
counterpart, 
gaining  in  the 

closeness  of  its  houses  to  one  another  what  it  loses  in  being  shorter 
— a  magnificent,  well  kept  road  lined  with  a  succession  of  dwell- 
ings only  separated  by  gardens  and  beautified  grounds.  The  fir  t 
village  it  pierces  is 

Aquebogue,  flourishing  as  a  well  attended  garden  ;  and  gar- 
den is  the  only  word  that  describes  this  whole  peninsula.     Next  is 
Jamesport,  the  first  settlement  on   Peconic  Bay,  divided  as 

to  its  houses  and  its  fealty  into  two  parts 
— one   along   the   blue  bay   and   one  to 


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help  maintain  the  wondrous  turnpike  we  have  spoken  of.  There 
are  two  hotels  and  many  boarding  houses ;  and  whether  you  stop 
at  the  bay  shore  and  fish,  swim,  sail  or  row,  or  whether  you  live 
on  the  bustling  road  and  seek  the  bold"  cliff  and  gentle  beach  of 
the  Sound,  you  will  be  ever  amid  the  most  exquisite  scenery,  the 
most  fertile  soil  and  the  most  abundant  opportunities  for  pleasure. 
The  rush  was  too  great  last  summer,  but  the  accommodations  have 
since  been  increased.     It  was  not  in 

Franklinville,  the  next  village,  that  the  writer  had  a  sin- 
gular experience,  but  it  was  nearby  on  the  same  shore.  He  arrived 
late  one  summer  evening,  and,  after  a  delightful  supper  and  a  medi- 
tative cigar,  went  to  bed.  In  the  morning  came  a  violent  rat-tat 
on  the  chamber  door,   and  then  the  command, 

"Get  up." 

"All  right.    What  time  is  it?" 
"  Half-past  six  ;    get  up." 

"Look  here,"  said  the  boarder,  "I  never  get  up  at  such  an 
unchristian  hour  as  this.     Wake  me  at  half-past  eight." 

"No,  "was  the  reply.     "  Hurry  down  ;  I'll  wait  for  you  down 

stairs." 

A    STORY    ABOUT    A  BREAKFAST. 

So  the  visitor,  wondering  what  was  the  matter  and  what  sort 
of  a  place  he  had  come  to,  donned  his  clothes  and  found  the  inn- 
keeper thumping  up  and  down  the  piazza  in  the  cold  morning 
air.  He  was  eccentric.  (He  keeps  a  hotel  no  longer  ;  indeed, 
his  old  neighbors  say  he  is  driving  a  street  car  in  one  of  the  cities.) 
But  he  was  a  genial,  kind-hearted,  well-meaning  man,  and  gave 
this  particular  guest  a  morning's  experience  never  to  be  forgotten. 

"Now,"  said  he,  "you  are  from  the  city.  You  don't  know 
the  first  principles  of  good  living.  To  live  sensibly  and  to  enjoy 
life  you  must  first  arise  early.  Then  you.  must  exercise.  Then 
you  must  eat ;  not  city  food,  but  fresh  country  fare,  just  out  of 
the  earth  or  the  water.  Now  you  are  up  and  ready  for  it,  stroll 
down  this  road  and  see  the  earth  quickening  into  life ;  see  fair 
Nature's  morning  blushes  ;    enjoy  the  electric    air    and  the  tonic 


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ACROSS  FECOXIC  BAY. 


sunlight.  Two  miles  clown  you'll  come  to  a  beautiful  pond. 
There  you'll  see  something-  worth  your  walk.  Then  come  back  ami 
I'll  have  a  breakfast  better  than  the  Queen  gets  in  the  Highlands." 


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"I  won't,"  was  the  reply. 
"  Please  do. " 

"But  I  shall  be  faint  in  half  an  hour." 

"Oh,  bad  city  habit  to  eat  when  you  first  get  up;  but  come 
into  the  bar-room.  I'll  fit  you  for  your  breakfast.  Drink  this  and 
eat  this  cracker.  There  !  You'll  be  a  new  man  if  you  stay  with 
me. " 

Humoring  the  man,  partly  from  the  same  motive  that  moved 
the  personage  who  smiled  a  ghastly  smile  when  a  crazy  photo- 
grapher put  a  pistol  to  his  head  and  bade  him  "look  pleasant," 
and  partly  because  the  hotel  -  keeper's  intentions  were  of  the  very 
best,  the  full  four-mile  walk  was  taken  and  enjoyed,  and  in  an 
hour  the  guest  sat  down  at  the  hotel  table. 

"I've  taken  a  great  fancy  to  you,"  said  mine  host,  "and  have 
cooked  your  breakfast  with  my  own  hands.  Eat  sparingly,  for  there 
is  a  good  variety.  First,  I  have  roasted  you  some  clams  in  the 
earth ;  next,  you  shall  have  a  blue-fish  baked  in  leaves  in  the 
ground  ;  after  that,  the  leg  or  wing  of  a  young  chicken,  broiled 
over  an  open  fire  ;  potatoes,  sweet  potatoes,  home-made  bread, 
milk  and  coffee.  If  vou  want  a  smack  of  bacon  with  vour  chicken, 
I'll  cook  it  for  you  while  you  eat  your  clams  and  fish." 

Thus  was  gotten  what,  after  years  of  experience  in  other  dis- 
tricts and  other  lands,  is  still  remembered  as  the  most  toothsome, 
fragrant,  and  in  every  way  delicious  one  among  ten  thousand 
breakfasts.  And  though  there  is  no  such  a  hotel -keeper  to-day, 
Long  Island  fare  yet  remains  for  all  who  value  fresh,  beautiful 
and  delightful  food. 

Northville,  a  pretty  place  on  the  high  bluff  overlooking  the 
Sound,  and  Franklinville,  a  prosperous  farming  village  which  raises 
crops  that  the  managers  of  the  stylish  city  hotels  are  greedy  to  get, 
offer  board  in  a  few  farm-houses.    Beyond,  and  on  the  railroad,  is 

Mattituck.  —  Mattituck    can   keep    a  summer  visitor  busy 

83  miles  from  new  york  or  Brooklyn.  with  varied  entertainment  throughout  an 
6  trains  daily.      2  trains  Sunday.  |    entire  summer.     The  creek  rises  near  the 


village  and  flows  into  the  Sound.  The  Sound  beach,  a  mile  and 
a  half  distant,  slopes  up  to  a  high  and  rugged  bluff,  but  the  water 


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is  easily  accessible  and  the  bathing  is  excellent.  Peconic  Bay,  half 
a  mile  from  the  village,  is  a  favorite  excursion  field  for  fishing, 
sailing  and  rowing  parties.  There  is  the  old  familiar  pond  one 
seems  to  meet  with  nearly  everywhere,  of  which  the  alleged  chief 
peculiarity  is  that  it  has  no  bottom.  However,  this  pond  is  useful 
and  beautiful  as  well  as  mysterious.  Pretty  residences  are  scattered 
all  about  the  neighborhood,  and  there  are  Episcopal,  Methodist 
and    Presbvterian   churches  and  a  first-class  hotel.     In  the  same 

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fertile  district  is  • 

Cutchogne. — Here,  too,  is  the  great  thoroughfare,  fit  road- 

I    way   for    a   region    famed  for   its  horses. 

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s  trains  daily.  «  trains  Sunday.  |  Hutchinson's  and  Goldsmith's  Creeks  beau- 
tify the  countrv-side.    The  Great  Bav  is  onlv  a  mile  distant,  where, 

J  J  J.J  *  J 

in  quaint  New  Suffolk,  boats,  fishing  and  bathing  are  to  be  had. 
There  is  a  hotel  and  many  boarding  houses,  and  of  churches  there 
are  the  Roman  Catholic,  Presbyterian,  Methodist  and  Congrega- 
tional. Look  at  the  map  when  you  are  reading  about  all  these 
places  between  Riverhead  and  Orient,  and  draw  your  own  infer- 
ence as  to  what  the  air  here  must  certainly  be.  In  the  same  rich 
agricultural  country  is 

Peconic,  another  and  very  similar  summer  cooling,  resting 

and  sporting  place.  The  triangular  head- 
land that  makes  out  into  the  water  here 


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is  the  delightful  site  for  Peconic  Park,  a  projected  resort  which  has 
been  purchased  by 
the  Peconic  Park  Im- 
provement Company. 
The  plan  is  to  erect 
here  a  cottage  settle- 
ment and  a  fine  hotel, 
with  roads  and  walks 
and  wharfs  and  ar- 
tistic landscape 
effects.  The  Park  is 
that  point  of  land 
which  divides  Little  Peconic  and  Great  Peconic  Bavs,  on  the  upper 


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fork  of  the  island  and  in  a  line  with  Southampton  on  the  lower 
fork.  Mr.  G.  P.  Lathrop  has  written  a  book  about  the  attractions 
and  advantages  of  this  site,  which,  as  he  says,  is  less  than  three 
hours  from  New  York  ;  has  an  equable,  mild  climate  and  salubrious 
air ;  rises  to  one  of  the  loftiest  elevations  on  Long  Island  ;  com- 
bines woodland,  hill  and  beach,  and  offers  charming  walks  and 


drives,  and  health,  sport  and  comfort  to 
those  who  are  to  pass  their  summers 
If  the  next  time  the  reader  consults  his  map, 
he  will  glance  at  Peconic  Park,  pushing  out  like  a 
vessel  into  the  cool  waters,  the  good  judgment  of  the  promoters  of 
this  new  enterprise  will  be  at  once  apparent.  Here  is  coolness 
without  ocean  blasts,  water  without  a  bleak  expanse  of  sand,  the 
foundation  of  a  settlement  that  is  to  be  in  no  sense  an  excursion 
resort,  and  that  will  never  be  permitted  to  become  anything  but  a 
select  and  delightful  community  of  cottage  folks,  all  sharing  the 
common  interest  in  maintaining  and  improving  the  attractiveness  of 
their  beautiful  park.    Only  a  mile  and  a  quarter  away  is 

Southold. — Two  of  its  houses,  built  in  1640,  remain  in  the 

village  as  reminders  that  this  is  the  oldest 

The  houses 


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town  on  eastern  Long  Island. 


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form  a  few  blocks  of  the  great  country  street  we  have  referred  to, 
which  here  lies  close  to  both  Sound  and  ocean,  and  is  especially 
cool  all  summer.  There  is  a  savings  bank  and  a  newspaper,  and 
there  are  two  hotels  and  four  churches.  From  at  least  thirty  board- 
ing houses  the  resting  and  recuperating  city  folk  may  start  out  on 
daily  expeditions  for  the  Sound  beach,  the  bay  shore,  the  delightful 
drives,  the  fishing  or  the  shooting.  Last  of  all  the  railroad  stations  is 
Greenport. — A  master  of  descriptive  has  written  of  the  sur- 
prise "  afforded  by  the  harbor  of  Greenport, 


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seen  in  the  gathering  twilight  of  a  clear 
evening,  its  liquid  stretches  bordered  by  low,  wooded  banks,  from 


which  the  cheerful  gleam  of  lighted  windows  shone  at  intervals. 
There  could  hardly  be  a  completer  picture  of  a  safe  and  placid  haven 
than  this."  The  beauties  of  the  harbor  and  the  outer  waters,  laving 
the  shores  of  Fort  Pond  Bay,  of  bold  Montauk  and  of  Shelter  and 
Gardiner's  Islands,  are  known  all  over  America.  But  the  writer 
referred  to  should  have  seen  the  village  as  the  writer  has,  with  its  little 
stores  taxed  to  meet  the  rush  of  city  people  who  jostled  the  elbows  of 


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the  farmer-folk  in  town  for  marketing — each  sort  of  persons  slyly 
watching  the  other,  and  each  thinking  the  other  very  curious  and 
interesting.  He  should  at  the  same  time  have  seen  the  make-believe 
side  streets — too  pretty,  cool  and  salubrious  to  be  thought  of  as  streets 
-bearing  lovely  city  burdens  in  carriages,  and  gallant  city  fellows 
arm-in-arm  on  the  sidewalks  with  coy,  country  beauties.  Then,  too, 
to  make  his  work  worth  the  while,  the  writer  first  quoted  should  have 
seen  the  bay  alive  with  pleasure-craft — for  here  is  fine  bathing,  good 
sport  with  the  gun,  and  fishing  unexcelled.  There  are  fine  walks  and 
finer  drives,  and  the  considerable  community  of  cottage  folk  show 
that  the  beauties  of  the  place  are  known  to  Chicago  and  the  West,  and 
Boston  and  the  East,  as  well  as  to  New  York.  It  is  a  bustling,  travel- 
lers' centre,  also  with  ferry  connection  for  New  London,  New  Haven, 
Hartford,  Shelter  Island,  Sag  Harbor,  East  Marion  and  Orient. 
The  harbor  is  deeper  and  better  than  that  of  New  York  ;  the  shipping 
interest  is  large,  and  ship-building  and  manufactures  are  increasing. 
There  is  a  bank  here  and  a  fire  department.  Wild  geese  and  ducks 
are  abundant  in  the  season,  and  boarding  accommodation  is  plenty 
and  reasonable  in  price.  Jump  into  a  sail-boat,  or  a  steamer  if  you 
prefer  it,  and  in  ten  minutes  you  will  be  on 

SHELTER  ISLAND — a  mass  of  verdure,  upraised  on  irreg- 
ular, rugged  cliffs.  It  is  sheltered  from  boisterous  winds  and  inclement 
weather  by  its  position  between  the  two  parts  of  the  divided  end  of 
Long  Island,  where  the  maps  show  it  lying  like  a  filbert  between  the 
spread  jaws  of  a  nut-cracker.  In  jest,  the  boast  is  often  made  that 
one  village  or  another  is  "as  big  as  New  York,  though  not  built  up 
yet. "  This  is  true  of  Shelter  Island,  which  is  seven  miles  long  and  five 
wide.  The  surface  presents  a  delightful  array  of  streams,  inlets,  hills, 
dales,  groves  and  bays.  The  temperature  is  cool  all  summer,  and 
balmly  both  early  and  late  in  the  season.  The  outlook  from  the 
bluffs  is  wondrous  :  Connecticut,  all  Peconic  Bay,  Gardiner's  Island, 
Montauk  Point  and  the  sea  are  spread  to  the  gaze.  The  gently-slop- 
ing beach  is  safe  for  bathers  and  delightful  to  the  children,  who  search 
it  for  shells  and  mosses.  It  is  not  white  and  blinding,  as  most  beaches 
are.  The  fishing  is  very  fine  ;  porgies,  Spanish  mackerel,  blue-fish, 
black-fish,  bass,  flat-fish  and  weak-fish  are  plenty.     The  prevailing 


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wind,  from  the  southwest,  is  peculiarly  dry  and  strengthening,  and 
many  who  have  waited  vainly  for  returning  health  in  the  mountains 
have  found  it  here.  The  abundant  vegetation,  lawns  and  shaded  drives 
are  unusual  at  the  sea-side.  Shelter  Island  is  a  sturdy,  growing  infant 
in  the  family  of  Long  Island-  resorts,  and  the  fact  is  appreciated  by  the 
management  of  the  railroad,  who  now  give  it  especial  attention,  and 
will  increase  the  facilities  here  as  fast,  or  faster,  than  the  demand. 
There  are  good  hotels  here  ;  the  Manhanset  House  is  one  of  the  finest 
in  the  country.      Its  location  is  perfect  and  its  accommodations 


and  manager.  The  Prospect  House 
is  aptly  named,  and  thoroughly  and  finely  appointed.  Its  lessee,  Mr. 
D.  P.  Hathaway,  late  of  the  Grand  Pacific,  Chicago,  is  its  manager. 
An  association  of  business  men  has  become  possessed  of  a  fine  tract 
on  the  highest  land  and  facing  the  bay,  and  has  improved  it  by  a 
large  and  wise  outlay.  More  than  one  hundred  cottages  have  been 
built,  and  a  water  system  has  been  established.  The  Rev.  Dr.  R.  S. 
Storrs  has  his  resting  place  here,  and  other  men  of  wealth  or  fame 
or  distinguished  taste  are  summer  residents. 

Orient. — Farther  east  than  the  railroad  reaches  lies  the  banner 
farming  district  of  the  State.  The  soil  is  a  clay  loam,  the  richest  and 
most  fertile  in  New  York,  and  produces  more  oats,  rye,  wheat,  potatoes, 

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corn  and  turnips  to  the  acre  than  the  most  boastful  farmers  elsewhere 
credit  their  lands  with.  You  reach  Orient  over  five  miles  of  a  level, 
hard  road  out  of  Greenport.  You  find  in  the  midst  of  the  smiling  plain 
a  quaint  old  village  of  1,000  hospitable,  prosperous  people.  But  for 
the  trees,  you  could  see  from  any  point  on  that  cool  peninsula  Gardi- 
ner's Bay  on  one  hand,  and  the  Sound  on  the  other.    So  extraordinary 


is  the  fishing,  that  this  little  community  ships  weekly  catches  of  be- 
tween fifteen  and  fifty  tons  to  New  York.  There  are  boarding  houses 
there,  and  board  is  cheap.  Three  miles  beyond,  on  Orient  Point,  there 
is  an  excellent  hotel,  most  charmingly  and  healthfully  situated.  From 
its  cupola  you  see  the  great  star-fish  outlines  of 

Gardiner's  Island. — Here  is  dessert  fit  for  the  close  of  such 
a  repast  as  this  Bill  of  Long  Island  Fare  offers ;   a  reminder  of 
Captain  Kidd  after  these  views  of  peaceful  water-sides,  and  a  hint 
of  a  feudal  stronghold  in  the  most  delightful  section  of  free  America. 
The  island  is  nine  miles  long,  with  a  tiny  population  of  farmers, 
gardeners  and  stock-raisers.    The  same  family,  the  Gardiners,  have 
owned  it  250  years.    The  Squire's  Hall,  built  in  1774,  is  supplied 
with  every  necessary  for  the  table,  except  sugar,  tea  and  coffee,  by 
his  people,  and  out  of  his  land.     Here  was  dug  up  a  chestful  of 
gold,  silver,  pearls,  rubies,  diamonds,  silk  and  satin,  which  Capt. 
Kidd  buried  on  the  island  only  a  little  while  before  he  paid  the 
penalty  of  his  crimes.     But  there  is  nothing  weird  or  mysterious 
about  Gardiner's  Island.    It  is  a  lovely,  sunlit  isle,  where  the  land 
rejoices  in  fruit,  flowers  and  game ;    and  as  for  the  sea — 

Here  and  there  a  fisher's  far-off  bark 

Flies  with  the  sun's  last  glimpse  upon  its  sail. 

Like  a  bright  flame  amid  the  waters  dark. 


It  must  be  acknowledged  that  the  task  of  preparing  this  volume  required 
the  utmost  care,  sagacity,  and  artistic  taste.  We  believe  that  this  is  apparent 
in  every  page — in  letter-press,  illustrations  and  printing. 

The  literary  work  was  entrusted  to  Mr.  Julian  E.  Ralph,  of  the  New 
York  Su?i,  and  to  the  American  Bank  Note  Company  is  due  the  credit  for 
the  illustrations,  as  well  as  the  mechanical  work  of  publication. 


IOI 


THE 

LONG  ISLAND  RAILROAD  COMPANY. 

PASSENGER  TARIFF, 

No.  18, 

Between  Long  Island  City  or  Brooklyn  and  all  Stations. 

TAKING  EFFECT  JUNE    let,  1884. 

Superseding  No.  18,  of  October  1st,  1884. 


ROUND  TRIP  TICKETS 

Are  sold  at  all  Ticket  Offices  of  the  Company,  and  those  reading  good  for  three  days  will,  until 
further  notice,  be  good  until  used. 

MONTHLY  (46-TREP)  SCHOOL  TICKETS 

Are  dated  from  the  first  of  each  month,  and  are  valid  only  during  the  month  for  which  issued. 
They  will  be  issued  only  to  scholars  under  twenty-one  years  of  age,  between  any  station  and  Long 
Island  City  or  Brooklyn,  at  a  rate  equivalent  to  about  one  twelfth  the  annual  commutation  rate. 
School  tickets  between  intermediate  stations  will  be  issued  upon  application,  at  corresponding  rates. 

TWENTY-FIYE  AND  FIFTY-TRIP  FAMILY  TICKETS 

Are  valid  six  months  from  date  issued.    They  will  be  issued  to  heads  of  families  at  the  rate  of  two 
cents  per  mile,  and  can  be  used  only  by  them  and  the  immediate  members  and  servants  of  the 
Family.    The  contract  (similar  to  the  application),  printed  on  the  ticket,  must  be  signed  by  the  per- 
son in  whose  name  the  ticket  is  issued  before  it  will  be  accepted  for  fare. 
These  tickets  will  not  be  dated  in  advance  of  the  date  issued. 

MILEAGE  TICKETS 

Are  valid  twelve  months  from  date  issued,  for  iooo  miles  travel  at  the  rate  of  two  cents  per  mile  ; 
fractional  parts  of  a  mile  being  charged  as  a  full  mile,  and  not  less  than  two  coupons  to  be  taken  for 
any  distance.  They  will  be  issued  for  the  use  oC  ONE  PERSON  ONLY.  The  contract  (similar 
to  the  application),  printed  on  the  ticket,  must  be  signed  by  the  person  in  whose  name  the  ticket  is 
issued  before  it  will  be  accepted  for  fare.  They  are  not  transferable. 
These  tickets  will  not  be  dated  in  advance  of  the  date  issued. 

COxMMUTATION  TICKETS 

Date  from  the  first  of  each  month,  and  no  deduction  will  be  made  for  part  of  a  month.  The  coupons 
are  dated,  two  for  each  day,  and  are  valid  only  on  the  day  of  date.  They  are  not  transferable. 

Commutation  tickets  on  the  monthly  payment  plan  may  be  purchased  monthly,  or  for  any 
number  of  consecutive  months  up  to  twelve,  may  be  purchased  at  one  time.  Tickets  at  the 
monthly  payment  rates  ivill  not  be  issued  in  connection  with  the  single  payment  (three,  six 
and  twelve  months)  TicJcets. 

To  insure  prompt  delivery  of  tickets,  applications  should  be  made  at  least  five  days  before 
the  first  ok  the  month  for  which  they  are  wanted.  All  tickets  so  ordered  will  be  ready  for 
delivery  on  the  day  before  the  first  of  the  following  month. 

Tickets  ordered  on  the  last  day  of  the  month  will  not  be  ready  for  delivery  until  the 
following'  day. 

For  further  information  see  applications,  which  may  be  obtained  at  any  regularly  established 
ticket  office  of  the  company.  Tickets  will  be  delivered  only  at  FLATBUSH  AVE.,  BUSH  WICK, 
JAMES  SLIP,  LONG  ISLAND  CITY   or  ANNEX  BOAT  Ticket  Offices. 

I.  D.  BARTON,  chas.  m.  heald, 

General  Superintendent.  General  Traffic  Manager. 


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Monthly  (46-Trip)  School  Tickets  are  good  only  during  the  month  for  which  issued 
They  will  be  issued  only  to  scholars  under  twenty-one  years  of  age, 
and  attending  school,  at  the  following  rates. 

TO  OR  FROM  WESTERN  TERMINALS. 


BETWEEN 

LONG  ISLAND  CITY  or  BROOKLYN 

AND 


♦Woodhaven  ....  $3  65 

*Clarenceville         3  90 

Jamaica  4  60 

Queens   4  90 

Hinsdale   5  15 

Hyde  Park   5  40 

Garden  City   5  85 

Hempstead    6  10 

Mineola   5  8  5 

East  Williston. ...  6  25 

Roslyn  6  50 

Glen  Head   6  75 

Glen  Cove   6  85 

Locust  Valley  7  00 


Westbury  $6  35 

Hicksville   6  75 

Syosset   7  00 

Cold  Spring   7  25 

Huntington   7  65 

Greenlawn   7  90 

Northport   8  25 

tGlendale   3  35 

Richmond  Hill...  3  90 

Springfield   4  90 

Valley  Stream. .. .  5  40 

Hewletts   5  65 

Woodsburgh   5  85 

Ocean  Point   5  85 


Lawrence  $6  25 

Far  Rockaway. . .  6  50 

Pearsalls   5  65 

Rockville  Centre/  6  85 

Baldwins   6  25 

Freeport   6  50 

Merrick.   6  65 

Bellmore  6  75 

Ridgewood   6  85 

S.  Oyster  Bay. ...  7  CO 

Amity ville   7  25 

Breslau   7  60 

Babylon   7  93 

Bayshore   8  25 


BETWEEN 

LONG  ISLAND  CITY 

AND 

Woodside  $3  00 

Winfield  8  10 

Newtown   3  15 

Corona   ...  3  40 

Flushing  3  90 

College  Point  ...  4  15 

Whitestone   4  60 

Broadway   4  15 

Bayside   4  60 

Douglaston   4  75 

Little  Neck   4  85 

Great  Neck   5  03 


*  These  rates  apply  to  Flatbush  Avenue  only. 


t  This  rate  applies  to  L.  I.  City  only 


BETWEEN  LOCAL  STATIONS. 


BETWEEN 

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Woodhaven  $3  00 

Queen's   3  10 

Hinsdale   3  65 

Hyde  Park   3  90  j 

Mineola   4  60 

Garden  City   4  60 

Hempstead   4  90 

East  Williston.  . .  4  90 

Roslyn   4  90 

Glen  Head   5  40 

Glen  Cove  5  65 

Locust  Valley ... .  G  10 

Westbury   4  90 

Hicksville   5  40 

Syosset   5  85 

Cold  Spring   6  50 

Huntington  6  75 

Greenlawn   7  00 

Northport   7  25 

Central  Park....    5  85 

Farmingdale  6  25 

West  Deer  Park. .  6  75 


Richmond  Hill.  ..$2  30 

Glendale   3  10 

Springfield  3  00 

Valley  Stream. ...  3  90 

Hewletts   4  60 

Woodsburgh          4  60 

Ocean  Point   4  60 

Lawrence  4  90 

Far  Rockaway. . .  4  90 

Pearsalls   4  60 

Rockville  Centre.  4  60 

Baldwins   4  90 

Freeport  4  90 

Merrick   5  15 

Bellmore   5  40 

Ridgewood   5  65 

S.  Oyster  Bay  5  85 

Amityville   6  35 

Breslau   6  65 

Babylon   6  85 

Bayshore   7  25 


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4 

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5 

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Greenlawn  

6 

10 

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4 

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Woodside  ,?3  15 

Winfield   3  10 

Newtown   2  30 

Corona   2  30 

College  Point .  . .  2  30 

Whitestone   3  00 

Bayside   3  00 

Douglaston   3  15 

Little  Neck   3  35 

Great  Neck   3  65 


Tickets  between  other  stations  than  those  mentioned  above  will  be  issued  at  corresponding 
rates  upon  application  at  the  General  Office,  Long  Island  City. 

Application  blanks  may  be  obtained  at  any  of  the  ticket  offices. 


THE 


MUTUAL  LIFE 

INSURANCE  COMPANY 

OF 

NEW  YORK. 


F.  S.  WINSTON,  President. 

Assets,  $101,148,248.25 

Surplus,  over  $12,000,000 

THE   LARGEST  AND   BEST  COMPANY  IN 

THE  WORLD. 

CHARLES  H.  RAYMOND, 

GENERAL  AGENT, 

No.  141  BROADWAY,  NEW  YORK. 


Our  liquid  paints  are  composed  exclusively  of  the  best  and  purest  materials  combined  on 
different  principles from  any  other  Liquid or  Mixed  Paints.  They  have  been  thoroughly  tested 
in  nearly  all  parts  of  the  world  and  have  been  found  to  withstand  the  severest  tests  of  climatic 
changes,  sea  air  and  other  trying  exposures  where  the  best  white  lead  has  failed,  and  the  universal 
testimony  of  those  who  have  used  them  is  sufficient  proof  of  our  claims  that  they  are  in  every  re- 
spect strictly  reliable  and  first -class  paints  of  a  higher  grade  than  have  ever  before  been  offered 
to  the  public  for  structural  purposes,  either  in  "  paste"  or  liquid  form,  and  second  to  none  in  rich- 
ness and  permanency  of  color,  beauty  of  finish,  durability,  uniformity,  and  all  characteristics  which 
are  requisite  to  form  a  perfect  ornamental  protective  covering. 

Our  paint  3  art  sold  by  U.  S.  Standard  Gallon  measure  (231  cubic  inches  J  ;  i.e.,  our  packages 
contain  front  8  to  1 2  per  cent,  more  paint  than  is  usually  sold  fior  the  same  quantity,  and  they 
weigh  from  10  to  20  per  cent,  more  to  the  gallon  than  any  others  in  the  market.  One  gallon 
WILL  COVER  FROM  225  TO  250  SQUARE  FEET,  TWO  COATS. 

We  manufacture  forty-eight  shades  of  "body  "  and  trimming  colors,  and  also  make  Standard 
and  Light  Greens,  Light  and  Dark  Blues,  Reds,  Black,  etc.,  samples  of  which  will  be  supplied  on 
application. 

The  finest  and  most  extensive  structures  in  this  country  are  painted  with  these  paints,  among 
them,  the  U.  S.  Capitol  at  Washington  ;  Light  Houses  zndLife  Saving  Stations  ;  U.  S.  Custom  House 
at  Chicago  ;  Navy  Yard  Buildings;  Metropolitan  Elevated  R.R.  ;  Oriental  and  Manhattan  Beach 
Hotels;  the  "Argyle"  and  Cottages  at  Babylon;  Hygeia  Hotel,  Fortress  Monroe;  Thousand 
Islands  House;  Crossman  House;  Forest  Hill  House,  Franconia,  N.  H.  ;  Sinclair  House, 
Bethlehem,  N.  H.  ;  Fort  Point  House,  Stockton,  Me.  ;  Pequot  House  and  Cottages,  New  London, 
Conn.;  Appledore  House,  Isle  of  Shoals  ;  the  "  Dakota,"  New  York  City,  and  thousands  of  other 
public  and  private  buildings.    Our  pamphlet  on 

"STRUCTURAL  DECORATION" 

Will  be  sent  free  by  mail  on  application. 


ROOF,  CAR  and  BRIDGE  PAINTS. 

These  paints  possess  a  more  elastic  body  than  any  other,  and  are  less  liable  to  injury.  They  are 
prepared  ready  for  use,  and  have  proven  to  be  the  most  economical  paints  ever  produced  for  similar 
purposes.  They  were  originally  designed  for  preserving  tin  and  other  roofs,  but  are  now  also 
used  for  railroad  buildings,  bridges,  freight  cars,  steamboat  decks,  boats,  and  all  wood  and  iron 
work  exposed  to  salt  or  fresh  water,  and  are  especially  adapted  for  out-buildings,  fences,  floors, 
gas  holders,  and  other  iron  and  rough  wood-work.  They  are  supplied  in  seven  colors,  viz.  :  brown, 
red,  yellow,  gray,  buff,  slate  and  cream-white.  One  gallon  will  cover  about  400  square  feet,  one  coat. 


ASBESTOS  ROOFING. 

The  only  practicable  and  reliable  portable  roofing  in  nse.  Is  adapted  for  steep  or  flat 
roofs  in  any  climate.   Skilled  labor  not  required  in  its  application. 


ASBESTOS  BUILDING  FELT, 

For  interlining  frame  buildings,  floors,  etc.     Is  wind,  dust  and  pre  proof. 

H.  W.  JOHNS  MANUFACTURING  CO., 

No.  87   MAIDEN    LANE,   NEW  YORK. 

SOLE  MANUFACTURERS  OF 

H.  W.  Johns'  Genuine  Asbestos  Liquid  Paints,  Roof  Paints,  Roofinr, 
Steam  Pipe  and  Boiler  Coverings,  Fireproof  Coating's,  Cements,  etc. 

DESCRIPTIVE  PRICE  LIST  AND  SAMPLE  FREE. 


BABYLON,  I  


OPENS  MAY  31st,  1884.  UNDER   NEW  MANAGEMENT. 

Transient  Rates,  $4  per  day. 

This  elegant  hotel  contains  200  handsomely  furnished  rooms  and  parlors,  and,  with  its  dozer- ,or 
more  contiguous  cottages,  is  situated  in  a  beautiful  park  of  seventy  acres,  distant  ONLY  ONE  AND 
ONE-HALF  HOURS  from  the  Fifth  Avenue  Hotel  (via  East  34th  St.  Ferry),  or  Wall  Street  by 
boat  from  Pier  17  East  River,  foot  Pine  St.,  or  James  Slip.    (See  time-table  Long  Island  Railroad.) 

Diasrams  may  be  seen  and  rooms  secured  by  applying  at  265  Broadway,  />r  at  the  Grand 
Hotel,  Broadway  and  31st  Street,  until  June  1. 

ATTRACTIONS. 

Pure  water,  perfect  ventilation  and  drainage,  electric  bells,  gas  and  baths,  telegraph  and  tele- 
phone offices,  extensive  livery  and  stabling  accommodations,  picturesque  lake  of  forty  acres,  with 
row  and  sail  boats,  yachting  and  exceptionally  fine  fishing  on  the  Great  South  Bay  (ten  minutes 
distant*.  Surf  and  still  water  bathing,  lawns,  flowers,  shady  drives,  Mollenhauers'  Orchestra, 
bowling  alley,  billiards  and  lawn  tennis  are  among  the  many  attractions  and  conveniences  at 
this  fashionable  and  charming  resort.  RICHARD  H.STEARNS. 


HEW  YORK  LIFE  INSURANCE  COMPANY. 


Assets,  -  -  ■  $55,000,000 
Surplus,     -    ■    ■  10,000,000 


"TONTINE  INVESTMENT"   and  "  NON-FOREE  /TING 
LIMITED  TONTINE"  POLICIES  ISSUED. 


General  and  Special  Agents  Wanted  on  Long  Island. 


APPLY  TO  BRANCH  OFFICE, 

BOREEL  BUILDING,  115,  117  and  119  BROADWAY,  N.  Y 

HENRY  M.  BALDWIN,  Agent  General 


STATEN  ISLAND 


"THE  BEAUTIFUL  ISLE  OF  THE  SEA." 


Hourly  Excursions  across  the  Bay  of  New  York 
at  TEN  CENTS  EACH. 


The  most  healthful,  the  cheapest  and  most  accessible  trip 

out  of  New  York. 


Connecting  with  the  hourly  ferries  is  the  railroad  across  Staten 
Island,  with  eleven  stations,  nearly  all  of  which  are  situated  in  localities 
surrounded  with  beautiful  woods  and  sylvan  retreats. 

For  family  picnics,  with  quiet  country  surroundings,  no  place 
out  of  New  York  is  so  cheaply, 

EASILY  AND  READILY  REACHED. 

All  trains  on  the  Elevated  Railroads  lead  to  the  Staten  Island 
Ferry.  Take  the  boats  nearest  to  the  Battery.  Go  only  by  the 
"Railway  Ferry,"  comprising  the 

FINEST,  FASTEST  AND  LARGEST  FERRY  BOATS 


IN  THE  WORLD. 


SURF  HOTEL, 


FIRE    ISLAND    BEACH?    N_  V_ 


The  only  natural  sea-shore  resort  in  America,  long  famous  for  its  invigorating 
breezes,  healthfulness  and  quiet  enjoyment. 

WILL  BE  OPENED  JUNE  15th. 


Some  of  the  advantages  of  this  place  as  a  summer  resort  are  : 
First. — Its  pure  sea  breezes,  always  cool  and  refreshing. 

Second. — Excellent  beach,  which  affords  superb  surf  bathing;  also  still  water 
bathing,  if  preferred  to  surf. 

Third. — At  the  very  doors  of  the  hotel  you  may  revel  in  the  sand  or  sea. 

Fourth. — Sailing  and  fishing  can  be  enjoyed  to  perfection  in  the  waters  of  the 
Great  South  Bay  and  Ocean. 

Fifth. — It  is  the  only  place  near  New  York  where  those  suffering  from  "hay 
fever  ''or  "  rose  cold  "  can  obtain  relief. 

Sixth. — A  certain  relief  for  catarrh. 

Seventh. — For  children  it  is  a  paradise. 

Eighth. — Here  may  be  enjoyed  all  the  beneficial  effects  of  the  Ocean,  without 
the  discomforts  of  a  sea  voyage. 

Ninth. — The  air  is  always  cool  at  Fire  Island. 

Tenth. — The  hotel  is  supplied  with  pure  water,  has  excellent  drainage,  is  lighted 
with  gas,  and  has  accommodations  for  400  guests.  Also  ten  cottages  in  connection 
with  the  hotel. 

Eleventh. — It  is  the  "place  of  places"  in  which  to  get  rid  of  chills  and 
malarial  fever. 


Rooms  may  be  secured  by  telegraph.     Through  tickets  and  baggage  checked  to  hotel. 
TBAIXS  WILL  LEAVE  L.  L  CITY,  8.30  a.m.  and  4.30  p.m. 

D.  S.  S.  SAMMIS  &  SON. 


Pavilion  Hotel  and  Cottages, 


Opened  for  the  season^  April  1st,  and  will  remain 
opei\  till  November  1st. 

31r.    JA31ES  SLATER, 

OF  THE  "  BERKELEY,"  FIFTH  AVE.,  COR.  9th  ST.,  NEW  YORK,  OWNER  AND  PROPRIETOR. 

GOOD  STABLE  ACCOMMODATION. 


During  the  past  Winter  the  Pleasure  Boat  "  Pavilion"  has  been 
built  and  launched.  She  is  owned  by  the  Hotel,  and  is  for  the  plea- 
sure of  its  guests,  their  children  and  nurses.  Under  the  charge  of  a 
competent  Captain  she  will  make  two  Excursions  each  day  on  the  Great 
South  Bay.  Conveyances  to  the  Dock  will  leave  the  Hotel  at  9.§0  a.m. 
and  2.S0  p.m. ;  returning  will  arrive  home  at  12.§0  and  £.00  p  m. 

NO  CHARGES  WILL  BE  MADE. 


MANHANSET  HOUSE, 

Shelter  Island,  L,  I.,  X.  T.  Opens  June  24th,  1884, 

E.  N.  WILSON,  Proprietor. 

SEA  CLIFF  HOUSE, 

Long  Island. 

Delightfully  situated  on  Hempstead  Harbor,  26  miles  from  New  York.  Capacity,  400  guests. 
Access  by  boat  or  rail  Excellent  facilities  for  bathing,  boating  and  fishing.  Connected  with  the 
hotel  are  telegraph,  billiard  hall  and  laundry. 

RATES  PER  WEEK,  $10  to  $20;  $3  J' Kit  DAY. 

PEET  &  DAILEY,        -       -       -        Owners  and  Proprietors. 

Circulars  sent  on  application,     Plans  seen  and  engagements  made  at 

74  WEST  35th  STREET,  NEW  YORK. 

CLIFFWOOD  HOUSE, 

SEA  CLIFF,  L.  I. 

THIS    DELIGHTFUL    SUMMER    RESORT    WILL    OPEN    IN  MAY, 

Elevation  180  feet.  Sandy  soil,  dry  atmosphere.  Three  minutes  from  bathing 
grounds  and  steamboat  landing.  Twenty-six  miles  from  New  York  ;  access  by  boat 
or  cars.    Application  and  terms  at 

No.  74  WEST  35th  STREET,  NEW  YORK, 

A.  DAILEY,  Owner  and  Proprietor. 


PAVILION  HOTEL, 

Opposite  Long  Beach,  WOODSBURGH,  L.  I. 

ON    HIGH  GROUND. 


Eighteen   miles  from   Brooklyn.      Accommodation  for   300  guests. 
Has  gas  and  running  water  in  every  room.      Furnished  in  best  stylei 
black  walnut  furniture,  Brussels  carpets,  best  beds  and  bedding.  Billiard 
room,  bowling  alley  and  large  stables.      Surf  and  still-water  bathing. 
Music  throughout  the  season. 

M.  E.  GLADWIN,  Manager, 

Office  of  Estate  of  SAMUEL  WOOD, 

Room  60,  Temple  Court 

3  to  9  BEEKMAN  ST.,  N.  Y. 


CHOICE  BUILDING  LOTS  AND  VILLA  SITES. 

Lots  from  $100  to  $500. 

TERMS     EASY     TO     ACTUAL  SETTLERS. 

COTTAGES  TO  LET  and  FOR  SALE.  HEALTHY  and  ECONOMICAL  HOMES  for  SUMMER  or  WINTER. 

Please  call  on  or  address 

A.  L.  SIMMSON,  Temple  Court, 

3  to  9  Beekman  St.,  New  York. 

8 


JAMAICA  HOTEL, 


JAMAICA,  L.  I. 

HOTEL   ON  THE  EUROPEAN  PLAN.     ROOMS  BY  THE  DAY,  WEEK  OR 
MONTH.     GOOD  LIVERY  STABLE  ATTACHED. 

ALONZO  B.  PETTIT,  Proprietor, 

Formerly  of  REMSEN'S  HOTEL,  corner  of  Beaver  and  Fulton  Streets. 


PECK'S  HALL  OF  PHARMACY, 

JAMAICA,  L.  I. 

PURE  DRUGS,  GENUINE  PATENT  MEDICINES;  Imported  and  Domes- 
tic FANCY  GOODS;  SURGICAL  APPLIANCES.  The  best  as- 
sortment on  Long  Island,  at  fair  prices  for  best  goods. 

PRESCRIPTIONS  COMPOUNDED  DAY  OR  NIGHT  BY  COMPETENT  PHARMACISTS. 

GEORGE  L.  PECK. 

BEERS  &  CORNELL, 

Corner  Union  Avenue  and  Fulton  Street, 

JAMAICA,  L.  X, 

— ARE  DEALERS  IN — 

HAY,  GRAIN  AND  FEED  OF  ALL  KINDS. 

Also  carry  a  full  stock  of  finest  Teas,  Coffee,  Fancy  and  Staple  Groceries,  Flour,  etc., 
and  make  pure  and  reliable  Farm  and  Garden  Seeds  a  specialty,  having 
arrangements  with  the  best  growers  in  the  country. 
Are  agents  for  Harrison  &  Bros'.  Ready-Mixed  Paints  and  Wiard  Chilled  Plows,  and 
can  furnish  satisfactory  prices  on  goods  in  large  or  small  quantities. 


J.  <3c  T  ADIKES, 

Wholesale  and  Retail  Dealers  in 

Groceries,  Flour,  Feed,  Hay,  Farm  and  Garden  Seeds  and 

General  Merchandise. 

SEED   POTATOES  A  SPECIALTY. 

DIVISION  STREET,  near  Railroad  Depot,     -    -    JAMAICA,  L.  I. 


THE  BLYDENBURGH  SUFFOLK  WAGON,  WITH  TOP,  No.  44.  Patented. 


These  carriages  are  all  made  by  day's  work  and  by  skilled  mechanics,  have  steel  axles  and  tire, 
corduroy  trimmings,  and  in  a  word,  are  strictly  a  fine,  not  a  cheap,  wagon. 

These  wagons  are  made  in  three  sizes,  one,  two  and  three  seated,  and  with  or  without  canopy 
tops.  They  are  the  summer  tourists'  ideal  depot  and  runabout  wagon.  They  are  light  and  hang 
low,  are  very  strong,  and  more  than  ordinarily  attractive. 

Send for  catalogue  and  prices.   Price  of  tliis  Wagon  is  $135. 

C.  M.  BIYDENBURGH,  Manufacturer,  Riverhead,  N.  Y. 


NAT.  W.  FOSTER, 

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL  DEALER  IN 

GOOD,  RELIABLE,  HONEST  INSURANCE, 

LIFE,    ACCIDENT,    FIRE    AND  TORNADO. 

Represents  some  of  the  very  best  companies  in  the  world.    Business  solicited from 

all  parts  of  the  Island. 

RIVERHEAD,  LONG  ISLAND. 


JOSEPH  B.  EVERITT  &  SONS, 

LIVERY  AND  BOARDING  STABLES, 

Flushing  Ave,,  rear  of  Town  Rail,  Jamaica,  L,  I. 


SKIDMORE, 


f  9 


STJjF^OjLfK:  CO., 


YORK. 


GEORGE  H. 


RIVERHEAD, 


NEW 


Stony  Brook,  Suffolk  County,  L  I. 

"D  ECENTLY  remodelled,  refitted  and  refurnished,  pleasantly  located,  close  proximity  to  depot 
Av  and  bathing  grounds.  Excellent  salt  water  bathing,  boating  and  fishing,  romantic  scenery, 
and  shady  drives.  This  house  is  the  most  pleasantly  located  and  every  way  the  most  desirable 
summer  resort  on  the  north  side  of  the  island. 

TERMS,  $7  TO  $10  PER  WEEK. 

STONY  BROOK  is  a  romantic  and  charming  little  village,  located  among  the  hills  in  view  of 
Long  Island  Sound.  Its  advantages — healthfulness,  no  mosquitoes,  fine  water  privileges  and  less 
than  two  hours'  ride  from  the  city.  Visit  this  little  village  and  see  for  yourself  before  making  arrange- 
ments for  summer  board.    For  further  information,  address 

THOMAS  B.  SMITH,  Stony  Brook,  L.  I. 


F.  W.  DEVOE  &  CO., 

Cor.  Fulton  and.   \V il liam  Streets,  ]N"ew  York, 

MANUFACTURERS  OF 

Dry  Colors,  Colors  in  Oil,  White  Lead,  Fine  Varnishes  and 
Japans,  Coach  and  Car  Colors  ground  in  Japan, 

READY  MIXED  PAINTS, 

FINE    BRUSHES,    ARTISTS'    MATERIALS,   etc.,  etc. 

FEED.  W.  DEVOE.  JAS.  F.  DKUMMOND.  J.  SEAVER  PAGE- 


OYSTER  BAY. 


-^THE  ACKER  NASSAU   HOUSE,  *- 

Broadway  and  Spring  St.,  HARRY  C.  ACKER. 

This  house  is  open  the  whole  year  for  guests.  Billiard  Saloon,  with  bar  supplied 
with  the  best.  Large  hall  for  concerts,  balls,  etc.  Stabling,  with  sheds  for  horses 
and  wagons.  Combining  comforts  of  a  home  with  pleasure  of  a  road  house.  Is 
not  excelled  by  any.  Stages  connect  via  Syosset  and  Locust  Valley  Stations,  Long 
Island  Railroad.  m  a  ACKEBt 


-•^PROSPECT  HOUSE,*- 

BAY  SHORE,  LONG  ISLAND. 


This  large  and  beautifully  situated  hotel,  located  on  the  "Great  South  Bay," 
directly  opposite  Fire  Island  Light  and  in  full  view  of  the  broad  Atlantic,  will  be 
open  for  the  reception  of  guests  on  the  first  of  May. 

The  magnificent  water  front  of  this  house  cannot  be  excelled  by  any  hotel  in  the 
vicinity  of  New  York. 

The  surroundings  are  perfect  in  healthfulness  and  beauty.  Ozone  can  here  be 
inhaled  in  all  its  purity  and  abundance.  No  Malaria  or  insects  of  any  kind  to  disturb 
or  annoy  the  sojourner  in  search  of  health  or  pleasure. 

The  Great  South  Bay,  on  which  the  house  is  situated,  is  renowned  for  the 
abundance  and  variety  of  fish,  and  its  facilities  for  sailing  parties  and  yachtsmen. 

In  fact,  the  Prospect  House  offers  that  great  desideratum,  so  long  sought  by  the 
more  refined  classes  in  New  York  and  elsewhere,  of  a  beautiful  and  quiet  sea- side 
home,  undisturbed  by  excursionists  or  the  ruder  elements  of  life.  Bay  Shore  is  in 
all  respects  the  Newport  of  Long  Island. 

Trains  for  Prospect  House,  Bay  Shore,  leave  Long  Island  City  at  frequent 
intervals.  Time  from  Long  Island  City  to  Bay  Shore,  one  hour  ;  ten  minutes'  walk 
to  railroad  station.    Hotel  stages  meet  all  trains. 


For  terms,  etc.,  apply  to 

N.  P.  SEWELL,  Proprietor. 


CONGRESS  HALL, 


Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  R.  H.  Southgate  again  becomes  interested  in  the  management  of  this  well-known  estab- 
lishment, and  promises  that  it  will  be  maintained  first-class  in  every  particular.  Terms  to  suit 
the  times. 

CLEMENT,    COX  &  SOUTHGATE. 


LONG  BEACH  HOTEL, 

Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

Thoroughly  select  and  first-class  family  resort.  Theodore  Thomas's  Orchestra.  Finest 
beach,  safest  bathing.    No  malaria,  no  hay  fever.    The  children's  paradise. 

SOUTHGATE  &  HAMMOND. 


ADIRONDACKS 

PROSPECT  HOUSE, 

Blue  Mountain  Lake. 

Finest  hotel  at  any  mountain  resort  in  America.  Electric  lights  and  running  water  in  every 
room.    Surrounded  by  the  primitive  forest  two  thousand  feet  above  sea  level.    No  hay  fever. 

R.  H.  SOUTHGATE,  Propinetor. 

MURRAY  HILL  HOTEL, 

NEW  YORK. 

The  largest  and.  finest  constructed  hotel  in  the  city,  one  block  from. 

Grand  Central  Depot, 

Will  open  August  20th.  1884.  HUNTING  &  HAMMOND. 

THOUSAND  ISLANDS  HOUSE, 

Alexandria  Bay,  N.  Y. 

First- class  in  every  respect.    No  malaria,  no  hay  fever.    Perfect  drain- 
age.   Pure  water.    Finest  fishing  in  America. 

It.  H.  SOUTHGATE. 

PALISADES  MOUNTAIN  HOUSE, 

Englewood  Cliffs,  on  the  Hudson. 

Forty-five  minutes  by  steamboat  from  New  York. 
Will  open  in  June  D.  S.  HAMMOND. 


WIVE.  WALL'S  SONS, 


MANUFACTURERS  OF 

MANILA  SISAL. 

JUTE  AND  TARRED 


CORDAGE  and  OAKUM. 

Office,  113  Wall  Street,  New  York. 


H.  Mendinhall,  Tres.  Clement  B.  Smyth,  V.  Tres.  and  Treas.  Geo.  W.  Todd,  Sec. 

DIAMOND  STATE  IRON  CO.,  WILMINGTON,  DEL 

MANUFACTURERS  OF 

RAILWAY  TRACK  FASTENINGS  and  MERCHANT  BAR  IRON, 

Cable  and  Rivet  Iron,  Hor?e  Shoe  Iron,  Fish  Joints,  Bolts,  Railroad  Spikes  Ship  Spikes,  Horse  and 
Mule  Shoes,  Washers,  Bridge  Work,  Hot  and  Cold  Pressed,  Nuts,  Lag  Screws,  Bolt  Ends,  e:c. 

NEW  YORK  OFFICE,  Coal  and  Iron  Exchange,  Courtlandt  and  Xew  Church  Sts. 

HOLBROOK  BROTHERS, 

IMPORTERS  OF  AND  DEALERS  IN 

FRENCH  A2VD  AMERICAN 


WINDOW  and  PLATE  GLASS, 

87  and  89  Beekman  St.,  53  and  55  Cliff  St., 

NEW  YORK- 


ISAAC  E.  HOLBROOK 
HARRY  HOLBROOK. 


Ch.  H.  Raymond,  Pres.  P.  M.  Millspaugh,  V.  Pres.  and  Gen'l  Manager. 

MANHATTAN    OIL  COMPANY, 
OFFICE,  51  Front  Street,  New  York.  WORKS,  419,  421,  423  and  425  E.  112th  St. 

Manufacturers  and  Sole  Proprietors  of  MASON'S  SPERM,  MANHATTAN  SIGNAL, 
EXTRA  LARD,  Tallow  and  Mystic  Coal  Oils,  Refined  Tallow,  and  Tallow  Stearine  for  Export 
and  Railroad  use,  also  Sperm,  Elephant,  Whale,  Paraffine,  West  Va.,  Olive  and  Cotton  Seed  Oils 
of  all  kinds.  Machinery,  Cylinder  and  Valve  Oils  for  Railroads,  Steamers,  Woolen  and  Cotton 
Factories,  Machinery  and  Burning,     j  B  Carpenter,  Treasurer.   J.  A.  Clussman,  Secretary. 

VALENTINE  &  COMPANY, 

Varnishes  and  Colors, 

245  BROADWAY,  NEW  YORK. 


CHICAGO. 


BRANCHES = 
BOSTON. 


PARIS. 


THE  JOHN  A,  ROEB LING'S  SONS  CO,, 

MANUFACTURERS  OF 

mOXT   AUD  STEEL 


OF  EVERY  DESCRIPTION  AND  FOR  EVERY  PURPOSE. 

Galvanized  Fence,  Market  and  Vinevard  Wire. 

GALVANIZED  TELEGRAPH  AND  TELEPHONE  WIRE  A  SPECIALTY. 


— ANI 

WIRE      OR"      EVE  RY  DESCRIPTION 
GALVANIZED  WIRE  CLOTHES  LINES. 

WINDOW  SCREEN  CLOTH.       BUCK-THORN  BARBED  FENCING. 

THE  JOHN  A.  ROEBLING'S  SONS  CO., 

NEW  YORK  OFFICE  AND  WAREHOUSE: 

117  and  119  LIBERTY  STREET. 
works:  trenton,  N.  J.  H.  L.  SHIPPY,  Manager. 


MANUFACTURERS  OF  AND  DEALERS  IN 


IRON  and  STEEL. 

AGENCIES  z 

PORTAGE  IRON  CO.  (Limited),  Merchant  Iron  and  Soft  Steel. 

NORWAY  STEEL  AND  IRON  CO.,  Homogeneous  Steel  Plates. 

BAY  STATE  IRON  CO.,  Tank,  Boiler  and  Girder  Plates. 
BRANDYWINE  ROLLING  MILL,  Boiler  Plates. 

GLASGOW  TUBE  WORKS,  Boiler  Flues. 

A.  M.  BYERS  <5r>  CO.,  Wrought  Iron  Pipe. 

CARNEGIE  BROS.  &>  CO.  (Limited),  Iron  and  Steel  Beams,  Channels, 

Shapes,  and  Shafting. 

H  P.  NAIL  CO:S  Steel  Wire  Nails.  BROOKLYN  WIRE  NAIL  CO. 

THE  CHESTER  PIPE  AND  TUBE  CO. 


Plans  and  estimates  furnished  and  contracts  made  for  erecting  iron  structures  of  every  description. 
Books  containing  cuts  of  all  iron  made  sent  on  application  by  mail.    Sample  pieces  at  office. 
Please  address 

58  Hudson  Street,  New  York. 


HENRY  S.  MANNING. 


EUGENE  L.  MAXWELL. 


CHAS.  A.  MOOBL 


MANNING,  MAXWELL  &  MOORE, 

Railway  &  Machinists'  Tools  &  Supplies, 

III  and  113  LIBERTY  STREET,  NEW  YORK. 


—AGENTS  FOR— 

THE  ASHCROFT  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

THE  CONSOLIDATED  SAFETY  VALVE  CO. 

MORSE  TWIST  DRILL  and  MACHINE  CO.'S  TAPS,  DIES,  SCREW  PLATES,  Etc 
THE  HANCOCK  INSPIRATOR  CO. 

NILES  TOOL  WORKS,  MACHINE  SHOP  AND  CAR  TOOLS. 

POND  MACHINE  TOOL  CO.'S  LATHES,  PLANERS,  DRILLS,  Etc. 


Worcester  Machine  Screw  Co. 

Brady's  Emery  Grinding  Machinery. 

The  Billow  Co.'s  Engines  and  Boilers. 

Smith's  Hub  Friction  Clutches. 

Keystone  Portable  Forge  Co. 

Midrale  Steel  Co.'s  Tires,  Axles,  Forgings 

and  Castings. 
Huntington  Track  Gauges. 
Saunder's  Corrugated  Copper  Packing  and 

Gaskets. 

Hoopes  &  Townsend's  Nuts,  Bolts,  Washers, 

Lag  Screws  and  Rivets. 
Bett's  Machine  Co.'s  Gauges,  Etc. 


Morgan  Engineering  Co.'s  Steam  Hammers, 

Punches  and  Shears,  Etc. 
The  Long  &  Alstatter  Co.'s  Punching  and 

Shearing  Machinery. 
Prentice  Bros. '  Drill  Presses. 
F.  E.  Reed's  Lathes  and  Drills. 
American    Tool  and  Machine   Co.'s  Brass 

Workers'  Tools. 
Brainard  Milling  Machine  Co. 
Valley  Machine  Co.'s  Steam  Pumps. 
Westcott's  Lathe  and  Drill  Chucks. 
Colliau  Furnace  Co.'s  Iron  Melting  Cupolas. 
Page  Belting  Co. 


^  UcCLAV£  4 


MILLS. 


YARD. 


Georgia  and  Florida. 


Hunter's  Point,  Long  Island  City. 


New  York  Office:  18  BROADWAY. 


TELEPHONE  CALLS : \BR0ADWAY  2 J5>  for  °ffice>  *8  Broadway. 

I  2  WILLIAMSBURGH,  for  Office  at  Hunter's  Point. 


SHELTER  ISLAND,  N.  Y, 

The  property  upon  which  the  Prospect  House  is  situated  rises  in  a  gradual  slope  from  the 
beach  to  a  height  of  over  two  hundred  feet,  the  highest  elevation  on  the  island.  Has  electric  bells 
and  other  modern  conveniences,  and  comfortably  accommodates  two  hundred  and  fifty  guests.  Its 
sanitary  condition  is  pronounced  perfect.  Located  upon  the  ground  is  an  inexhaustible  spring  oi 
the  pure  water  for  which  Shelter  Island  is  renowed,  and  from  which  the  hotel  is  supplied. 

THE  LONG  ISLAND  RAILROAD,  with  its  fast  trains  from  New  York  or  Brooklyn  to 
Greenport,  thence  by  Ferry  to  Prospect,  one  and  one-half  miles  distant,  arriving  at  the  hotel  in  two 
hours  and  thirty  minutes.  Baggage  should  be  checked  to  Greenport,  where  hotel  porters  will  meet 
guests  and  take  charge  of  baggage.  Also  by  the  steamer  W.  W.  Coit  from  Peck  Slip,  New  York, 
and  daily  by  steamer  from  New  London  and  Hartford,  connecting  with  trains  at  these  points. 

The  Hotel  will  open  the  19th  of  June.   Special  rates  for  two  or  more  weeks. 
Transient  Bate,  $3.50  per  day. 

D.  P.  HATHAWAY,  Proprietor, 

Late  Grand  Pacific  Hotel,  Chicago. 


Ft.   J.  CHARD, 


MANUFACTURER  OF 


COACH  OIL,  VALVE  OIL,  SIGNAL  OIL,  CAR  OIL  and  COOLING  COMPOUND,  a 

Lubricant  for  Hot  Car  Boxes,  all  of  which  are  in  nse  on  the  L.  I.  R.R. 

No.  6  BURLING  SLIP,  NEW  YORK. 

Established  1855.  A.  Spadone,  President. 

THE  GUTTA  PERCHA  AND  RUBBER  MANUFACTURING  CO. 

Rubber  Belting,  Packing  and  Hose,  Vulcanized  Rubber  Goods  for 

Mechanical  Purposes. 

 No.  23  PARK  PLACE,  NEW  YORK.  

S.  T.    BAKER.  E>  H.  BAKER. 


S.  T.  BAKER  &  CO., 

MANUFACTURERS  OF  AXD  DEALERS  IX 

Lubricating  and  Burning  Oils, 

295  PEARL  STREET,  NEW  YORK. 


J.  W.  &  T.  D.  JONES, 

LUMBER  AND  TIMBER 

DE  Al  EE  R  S_, 

Corner  West  iisicl   Kent  Streets, 

Adjoining  10th  and  2Sd  Sts.  Ferries.  GREENPOINT.     L.  I. 

THOS.  D.  JONES. 

ECONOMIST. 

PERRY  &  GO,, 


84  Beekman  St., 


NEW  YORK. 


Oil  Stoves, 


Parlor  Stoves, 
Cooking  Stoves, 


Hot  Air  Furnaces. 

ECONOMIST. 

PIERSON  <Sc  CO., 

24  to  27  West  Street,  corner  Morris  Street,  New  York, 

CARRY  IN  STOCK 

ALL  KINDS  OF  IRON  AND  STEEL. 

Lowest  Prices.    Orders  Solicited. 

HEADQUARTERS  FOR 

MEXICAN  AND  KNIT  HAMMOCKS, 

All  sizes  and  kinds  at  low  prices.  Steamboat  Chairs  and  Tonrists'  snpplies.  TO  Willi 
MANUTACTUKING  CO.,  Manufacturers  and  Importers  of 
FANCY  and  STAPLE  STATIONERY, 

No.  306  BROADWAY,  corner  Duane  Street,  NEW  YORK. 


ALL  PARTIES  LOOKING  FOR  SUMMER  RESORTS 
SHOULD  CONSULT  THE 

Knickerbocker  Ready-Reference  Guide 


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1000  FOODS  410II1 IIW  ¥011 


INCLUDING  ALL  PLACES 


Within  Fifty  Miles  of  New  York  City, 

ALL  OF  LONG  ISLAND, 

AND  MANY  OTHER  POINTS, 
ARRANGED  IN  ALPHABETICAL  ORDER, 


GIVES  INFORMATION  AS  TO 


Railroads,  Time  of  Trains,  Fares,  Steamboats,  Population,  Post 
Offices,  Time  of  Closing  of  Mails,  Express  Companies, 
Telegraph  Offices,  Stage  and  Horse  Car  Lines 
at  each  place,  together  with 

HACK  FARES,  LIVERY  AND  HOTEL  ACCOMODATIONS,  TELEPHONE  CONNECTIONS,  fc 

ALSO,  THE 

Latest  Official  Time- Tab lm 

OF  ALL  RAILROADS  WITHIN  THE  TERRITORY. 

The  Most  Easily  Understood  and  Comprehensive  Railroad  Guide  ever  published. 

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NATIONAL  RAILWAY  PUBLICATION  COMPANY, 

No.  46  Bond  Street,  NEW  YORK. 
 +++  

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  NEWS  DEALERS. 


BOWDEN   &  DRAKE, 


DEALERS  IN 


Fine  Groceries  and  Provisions,  Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits, 

CANNED  AND  POTTED  GOODS  OF  ALL  KINDS. 

GOODS  DELIVERED  FREE  OF  CHARGE. 
Cor.  Main  St.  and  Bridgehamjrton  Road,  SOUTHAMPTON,  L.  I, 


THE  MOST  CENTRAL  STORE  IN  SOUTHAMPTON,  L.  I. 

A  FINE  LINE  OF 

Dry  Goods,  Groceries,  Hats, 

Caps,  Hardware,  Woodenware, 

Crockery,  Paints,  Oils,  etc. 


POST  OFFICE  AND  TELEGRAPH  OFFICE  LOCATED  HERE. 


Goods  delivered  in  any  part  of  the  village. 

HERRICK  &  TERRY. 

LIVERY  AND  BOARDING  STABLES, 

U.  R.  HAVENS,  Proprietor, 

Near  Post  Office,  SOUTHAMPTON,  L.  I. 

Horses  to  hire  by  the  day,  month  or  season.  First-class  turnouts  and  careful 
drivers.    Gentle  horses  for  ladies  to  drive. 

Stages  from  these   Stables  connect  with  every    Train  to  and  from  New  York. 
ORDERS  BY  TELEGRAPH  OR  MAIL  FOR  PRIVATE  CARRIAGES  PROMPTLY  ATTENDED  TO. 


WILLIAM  H.  POST.  VALENTINE  SCHENCK. 

WM.  H.  POST  &  CO., 

DEALERS  IS 

FRESH  and  CORNED  MEATS,  HAM,  BACON,  Etc. 

POULTRY    AND    GAME    IN  SEASON. 

Academy  Lane,      -  Southampton,  L.  1. 


PATCHOGUE  LUMBER  YARD,  MOULDING  AND  PLANING  MILL. 

All  kinds  of  Building  Material,  Sashes,  Blinds,  Hardware,  Mouldings,  Turned  Columns,  Scrolls, 
Brackets,  etc.,  at  short  notice  and  lowest  cash  prices.  All  Trim  Stuff  and  Mouldings  kiln-dried. 
Clear  Yellow  Pine  and  Cypress  for  Boat  Building.    Long  Island  Trade  Solicited. 

E.  BAILEY  &  SON,  Proprietors. 


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AT 

E.  A.  &  H.  HILDRETH'S,  Southampton, 

— CAN  BE  FOUND  A  FULL  LINE  OF— 

Fine  Groceries,  Dry  Goods,  Notions,  Furniture,  Hardware 
Crockery,  Grain  of  all  kinds,  and  COAL,. 

ALL  OF  WHICH  WILL  BE  SOLD  AT  BOTTOM  PRICES. 


Goods  delivered  in  any  part  of  village. 

MONTAUK  MEAT  AND  FISH  MARKET, 

Main  Street,  Southampton,  L.  I. 

Dealer  in  FRESH  AND  CORNED  MEATS,  FISH,  BUTTER,  LARD,  BEEF  and  PORK. 
HAMS,  POULTRY,  GAME,  FRUIT  and  VEGETABLES  of  all  kinds  in  their  season.  Fresh 
Meat  and  Fruit  from  City  daily. 

F.  E.  FANNING,  Proprietor. 

SOUTHAMPTON  LUMBER  YARD. 

J.  H.  BISHOP,  Proprietor,  CONTRACTOR  and  BUILDER. 

All  kinds  of  LUMBER,  HARDWARE,  LIME,  CEMENT,  PAINT,  OIL  and  other 
BUILDING  MATERIAL  KEPT  IN  STOCK. 

Buildings  of  every  description  taken  on  contract,  percentage  or  by  the  day. 

W.  G.  CORWIN, 

JEWELER  STATIONER, 

And  dealer  in  Watches,  Jewel  ry,  Silverware  and  Optical  Goods,  E  verything 
in  the  Stationery  Line.   All  the  Daily  and  Weekly  Papers. 
Fine  Repairing  by  experienced  Workmen. 

MAIN  STREET,  SOUTHAMPTON,  near  Post  Office. 

W.   13.   >rAIV   13  R  XI  INT, 

PRACTICAL  TINSMITH,  PLUMBER  AND  JOBBER, 

Also  dealer  in  FURNACES,  STOVES,  PUMPS,  SINKS,  Lead  and  Iron  Pipe.  CUTLERY, 
TOILETWARE,  BATH-TUBS  and  a  good  assortment  of  Plain  Tin  and  Japanned  Ware.  COOK- 
ING UTENSILS  OF  EVERY  DESCRIPTION,  COPPER,  BRASS,  SHEET-IRON  and  TIN- 
WARE, MADE  TO  ORDER  AT  SHORT  NOTICE. 

JOBES   LANE,   SOUTHAMPTON,  L.  I. 


CARPENTER  AND  BUILDER, 

SOUTHAMPTON,  L.  I. 
WORK  DONE  BY  CONTRACT,  ON  PERCENTAGE  OR  BY  THE  DAY. 

NEW  ENGLAND  BAKERY  and  ICE  CREAM  SALOON, 

SOUTHAMPTON,  L.  1. 

The  proprietor,  GEORGE  F.  WINES,  will  run  a  wagon  daily  through  the  village,  and  supply 
his  customers  with  fresh  Bread,  Rolls,  Cakes  and  Pies. 

ALL  ORDERS  FOR  WEDDING  CAKES,  Etc.,  WILL  MEET  PROMPT  ATTENTION. 


POTTER  &  PRICE, 

FtE  AL   ESTATE  AGENTS, 

PATCHOGUE,  L.  I. 

Farms,  Village  Residences  and.  Villa  Plots  For  Sale.  Furnished 
Cottages  for  the  Summer  to  Rent. 


Main  St.,  BatcJiogne,  L.  T. 

FIRST  CLASS  IN  ALL  ITS  APPOINTMENTS.    SITUATED  IN  THE  CENTRE  OF  THE 
VILLAGE.    SPECIAL  ATTENTION  PAID  TO  TRANSIENT  GUESTS. 
TOURIST,  COMMERCIAL  MEN,  FISHING  AND  GAMING  PARTIES,  Etc. 

H.  C.  LOSEE,  Proprietor. 

A.  FISHEL, 

Dry  Goods,  Carpets  and  Furniture, 

MAIN  and  PINE  STREETS,  PATCHOGUE. 


Patchogue,  L.  I. 

Opens  June  1st.   Accommodates  75  Guests.    Terms,  $2.50  per  day;  $10  to  $15  per  week. 

This  house,  fronting  the  Great  South  Bay,  200  feet  from  the  water,  cannot  fail  to  please,  with 
its  large  airy  rooms,  good  beds,  a  well  supplied  table,  wide  piazzas,  ample  grounds,  docks,  yachts, 
row-boats  and  bathing.  Is  ten  minutes  from  depot.  Reference  if  required.  Our  Stage  meets 
all  Trains.  W.  M.  JENKINS,  Proprietor. 

ROE'S  HOTEL, 

PATCHOGUE,  L.  I. 

Open  the  year  round.  Accommodation  for  150. 

FIRST-CLASS    IN    EVERY  RESPECT. 


XX  J. 

ADJOINING  POST  OFFICE,  PATCHOGUE,    I  l_ 

_  ALONZO  E.  SMITH, 

YACHT  BUILDER,  ISLIB,  L.  I. 

Builder  of  Yachts  COMET,  HILDEGARD.  SAGITTA.  ONWARD,  WINDWARD,  LANCER, 
MYSTERY  and  others.  Having  two  sets  of  railways,  I  am  prepared  to  haul  out  and  overhaul 
vessels  at  short  notice.    Repairs  executed  with  despatch. 

Established  1849. 

LAKE  HOUSE, 

AMOS  R.  STELLENWERF,  Proprietor,  ISLIP,  Long  Island. 

Situated  near  the  Great  South  Bay  and  Ocean.  Neighborhood  excellent,  and  the  health  of 
place  proverbial.  The  table  is  provided  with  the  best  the  markets  afford.  Terms,  $3  per  day. 
Special  terms  to  families  by  the  season.    Access  by  rail,  three  times  per  day, 


[From  the  Boston  Daily  Globe.~\ 

"  Since  Mrs.  Frank  Leslie  assumed  the  sole  manage- 
ment, the  brilliancy  and  success  of  the  Leslie  publica- 
tions have  won  for  them  even  greater  popularity  than 
they  previously  had.  Her  editorial  ability  is  granted  by 
the  press,  and  is  shown  in  the  variety  and  excellence  of 
the  matter  promptly  placed  by  her  before  the  public. 
It  is  her  policy  to  produce  at  the  earliest  possible 
moment,  regardless  of  expense,  whatever  of  moment 
takes  place  in  any  section  of  this  country.  She  relies 
for  assistance  upon  a  corps  of  the  best  artists,  who,  with 
pencil  and  pen,  are  scattered  here  and  ^there  to  illustrate 
the  most  interesting  scenes.  Each  issue  of  Frank  Leslie's 
paper  faithfully  pictures  the  most  important  events,  and 
a  bound  volume  is  an  invaluable  history  of  the  year." 


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